Chaldean Metropolitan Archdiocese of

Baghdad

Iraq Iraq

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Continent: Central and Southwest Asia

Rite: Chaldean

Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese Metr. 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

History

Papal Visits

Present Prelates

Patriarch (2022.02.19 – ...):Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako (76)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)Bishop Basel Yaldo (54)

Titular Bishop of Bethzabda

Former Prelates

Special Churches

Jordan (←), Mossul–Aqrā (↖), Aleppo (↖), Kirkuk–Sulaimaniya (↑), Ahvaz (→), Bassorah (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

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

Population

Pastoral Centres

Priests

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Religious

Seminarians

Last updated on 2024.10.29

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