Continent: Central and Southwest Asia
Rite: Chaldean
Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese , Proper archeparchy of the Chaldean Patriarch
Name: Baghdad / Babylonen(sis) Chaldæorum (Latin)
Governed by: Patriarchal See of Baghdad
Ecclesiastical Province: Baghdad
Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches
Patriarch (2022.02.19 – ...): | Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako (76) Cardinal-Patriarch President of Synod of the Chaldean Church President of Assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Iraq Member of Council for the Economy |
Auxiliary Bishop (2015.01.15 – ...): | Bishop Basel Yaldo (54) Titular Bishop of Bethzabda |
Population: 200,000 Catholics
Pastoral Centres: 29 parishes
Personnel: 20 priests (18 diocesan, 2 religious), 3 deacons, 148 religious (4 brothers, 144 sisters), 3 seminarians
Last updated on 2024.10.29
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