Diocese of Mar Addai of Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 (Chaldean Rite)

Continent: North America

Rite: Chaldean

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Mar Addai of Toronto (English) / Sancti Adda in urbe Torontina (Latin)

Subject to the Patriarch

Neighbouring Dioceses: Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego (↓), Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

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History

2011.06.10: Established as Diocese of Mar Addai of Toronto (English) / Sancti Adda in urbe Torontina (Latin) (without ecclesiastical province)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2021.09.11 – ...):

Bishop Robert Saeed Jarjis (52)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Mar Addai of Toronto (Chaldean Rite)

Bishop Robert Saeed Jarjis (52)
(2021.09.11 – ...)

Bishop of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans (Canada)

We have seen his glory

Born:	1973.10.23 (Baghdad, Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	2008.04.27
Consecrated Bishop:	2019.01.18

Titular Bishop of Arsamosata (2018.12.22 – 2021.09.11)

Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq) (2018.12.22 – 2021.09.11)

Bishop of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans (Canada) (2021.09.11 – ...)

Bishop Bawai Soro (72)
(2017.10.31 – 2021.09.11)

Bishop emeritus of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans (Canada)

I have called you friends

Born:	1954.03.03 (Kirkuk, Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	1982.02.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1984.10.21 (no papal mandate)

Titular Bishop of Foratiana (2014.01.11 – 2017.10.31)

Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego of the Chaldeans (USA) (2014.01.11 – 2017.10.31)

Bishop of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans (Canada) (2017.10.31 – 2021.09.11)

Assyrian eparch 1984–2005.

Bishop Frank Yohana Kalabat (55)
(Apostolic Administrator 2017.08.09 – 2017.10.31)

Bishop Emmanuel Hana Shaleta (69)
(2015.01.15 – 2017.08.09)

Bishop emeritus of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego of the Chaldeans (USA)

Born:	1956.11.12 (Fishkabour-Zakho, Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	1984.05.31
Consecrated Bishop:	2015.02.06

Priest of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit of the Chaldeans (USA) (1984.05.31 – 2015.01.15)

Bishop of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans (Canada) (2015.01.15 – 2017.08.09)

Bishop of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego of the Chaldeans (USA) (2017.08.09 – 2026.03.10)

Fr. Daoud Baffro
(Apostolic Administrator 2014.05.03 – 2015.01.15)

Archbishop Hanna Zora
(2011.06.10 – 2014.05.03)

Born:	1939.03.15 (Batnaia, Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	1962.06.10
Consecrated Bishop:	1974.10.27
Died:	2016.10.02 (Tbilisi, Georgia † 77)

Archbishop of Ahvaz of the Chaldeans (Iran) (1974.05.01 – 2011.06.10)

Archbishop-Bishop of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans (Canada) (2011.06.10 – 2014.05.03)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, North York, Ontario

Churches by City (7)

Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego (↓), Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit (↓)

Statistics (2020.12.31)

Population: 30,800 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 13 parishes

Personnel: 13 priests (12 diocesan, 1 religious), 4 deacons, 1 religious (1 brother), 4 seminarians

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