Recent Events

Bishop Mikha Pola Maqdassi resigned as Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Archbishop Alberto Ortega Martín, Apostolic Nuncio to Chile, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela

Archbishop Mitja Leskovar, Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Democratic Republic of Congo

Archbishop Imad Khoshaba Gargees, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tehran of the Chaldeans (Iran), was appointed as Patriarchal Administrator of Urmyā of the Chaldeans (Iran) and Patriarchal Administrator of Salmas of the Chaldeans (Iran)

Archbishop Thomas Meram resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Urmyā of the Chaldeans (Iran) and Bishop of Salmas of the Chaldeans (Iran)

Fr. Imad Khoshaba Gargees was consecrated as Metropolitan Archbishop of Tehran of the Chaldeans (Iran)

Fr. Imad Khoshaba Gargees, Priest of Duhok of the Chaldeans (Iraq), was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Tehran of the Chaldeans (Iran)

Archbishop Thomas Meram resigned as Patriarchal Administrator of Tehran of the Chaldeans (Iran)

Bishop Rabban Al-Qas, Bishop emeritus of Duhok of the Chaldeans (Iraq), passed away at 74

Fr. Nersès Joseph Zabbara was consecrated as Archbishop of Baghdad of the Armenians (Iraq)

Fr. Sabri Anar was consecrated as Archbishop of Diarbekir of the Chaldeans (Turkiye)

Archbishop Jacques Ishaq, Archbishop emeritus of Erbil of the Chaldeans (Iraq), passed away at 85

Fr. Nersès Joseph Zabbara, Priest of Aleppo of the Armenians (Syria) and Apostolic Administrator of Baghdad of the Armenians (Iraq), was elected Archbishop of Baghdad of the Armenians (Iraq)

Archbishop Ramzi Garmou, Ist. del Prado, resigned as Archbishop of Diarbekir of the Chaldeans (Turkiye)

Archbishop-elect Sabri Anar, Priest of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq), was appointed as Archbishop of Diarbekir of the Chaldeans (Turkiye)

Fr. Younan Hano (Qusay Mubarak Abdullah) was consecrated as Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Archbishop Ephrem Yousif Abba Mansoor resigned as Patriarchal Administrator of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Fr. Younan Hano (Qusay Mubarak Abdullah), Priest of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq), was elected Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Patriarch Youssef Absi, resigned as Patriarch of Alexandria of the Greek-Melkites and Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Greek-Melkites

Bishop Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko succeeded as Bishop of Alquoch of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Bishop Mikha Pola Maqdassi, Bishop of Alquoch of the Chaldeans (Iraq), was appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq) and Titular Bishop of Seert of the Chaldeans

Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt, Apostolic Nuncio to Kazakhstan, Apostolic Nuncio to Tajikistan and Apostolic Nuncio to Kyrgyzstan, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Apostolic Nuncio to Montenegro

Fr. Sabri Anar, Priest of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq), was elected Archbishop of Diarbekir of the Chaldeans (Turkiye)

Fr. Nersès Joseph Zabbara resigned as Patriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem and Amman of the Armenians (Jordan)

Patriarchal See of Babylon (Chaldean Rite) was renamed as Patriarchal See of Baghdad (Iraq)

Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, President of Synod of the Chaldean Church, President of Assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Iraq, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans (Iraq) and Member of Council for the Economy, was appointed as Patriarch of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Fr. Azad Sabri Shaba was consecrated as Bishop of Duhok of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, President of Synod of the Chaldean Church, President of Assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Iraq and Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans (Iraq), was appointed as Member of Council for the Economy

Fr. Azad Sabri Shaba, Priest of Erbil of the Chaldeans (Iraq), was elected Bishop of Duhok of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Fr. Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko was consecrated as Coadjutor Bishop of Alquoch of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Archbishop Ephrem Yousif Abba Mansoor, General Secretary of Synod of the Syriac Catholic Church and Archbishop of Baghdad of the Syriacs (Iraq), was appointed as Patriarchal Administrator of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Archbishop Boutros Moshe resigned as Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Bishop Robert Saeed Jarjis, Titular Bishop of Arsamosata and Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq), was appointed as Bishop of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans (Canada)

Bishop Bawai Soro resigned as Bishop of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans (Canada)

Fr. Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko, Priest of Mossul–Aqrā of the Chaldeans (Iraq), was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Alquoch of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Bishop Rabban Al-Qas resigned as Bishop of Duhok of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Archbishop Ramzi Garmou, Ist. del Prado, resigned as Patriarchal Administrator of Tehran of the Chaldeans (Iran)

Archbishop Thomas Meram, Metropolitan Archbishop of Urmyā of the Chaldeans (Iran) and Bishop of Salmas of the Chaldeans (Iran), was appointed as Patriarchal Administrator of Tehran of the Chaldeans (Iran)

Bishop Shlemon Warduni resigned as Bishop of Curia of the Chaldeans

Fr. Firas Dardar was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Tagritum of the Syriacs

Titular Metropolitan See of Tagritum (Syriac Rite) was demoted as Titular Episcopal See of Tagritum (Iraq)

Fr. Firas Dardar, Priest of Beirut of the Syriacs (Lebanon), was elected Titular Bishop of Tagritum of the Syriacs and Patriarchal Exarch of Basra and the Gulf of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Msgr. Emad Ekleemes resigned as Patriarchal Exarch of Basra and the Gulf of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Fr. Felix Dawood Al Shabi was consecrated as Bishop of Zakho of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Msgr. Mitja Leskovar was consecrated as Titular Archbishop of Beneventum

Diocese of Amadiyah and Zaku (Chaldean Rite) was renamed as Diocese of Duhok (lost territory to establish Diocese of Zakho) (Iraq)

Diocese of Zakho (Chaldean Rite) was restored (from Diocese of Amadiyah and Zaku and became suffragan of Babylon) (Iraq)

Archbishop Najib Mikhael Moussa, O.P., resigned as Patriarchal Administrator of Amadiyah and Zaku of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Bishop Rabban Al-Qas, Bishop of Amadiyah and Zaku of the Chaldeans (Iraq), was appointed as Bishop of Duhok of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Fr. Felix Dawood Al Shabi, Priest of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq), was elected Bishop of Zakho of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Msgr. Mitja Leskovar, Priest of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Prelate of Honour of His Holiness, was elected Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq and Titular Archbishop of Beneventum

Cardinal Fernando Filoni (斐洛尼), Prefect of Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, President of Interdicastery Commission for Consecrated Religious and Grand Chancellor of Pontifical Urbaniana University, was appointed as Grand Master of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Knights of the Holy Sepulchre)

Archbishop Alberto Ortega Martín, Apostolic Nuncio to Jordan and Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Chile

Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto resigned as Assessor of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Knights of the Holy Sepulchre)

Archbishop Nathanael Nizar Wadih Semaan, Coadjutor Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq), was appointed as Archbishop-Bishop of Adiabene of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, Apostolic Nuncio to Cuba, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Croatia

Diocese of Adiabene (Syriac Rite) was established (from Archdiocese of Mossul and without ecclesiastical province) (Iraq)

Archbishop Nathanael Nizar Wadih Semaan, Coadjutor Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq), was appointed as Archbishop-Bishop of Adiabene of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Fr. Nathanael Nizar Wadih Semaan was consecrated as Coadjutor Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Fr. Nersès Joseph Zabbara, Priest of Aleppo of the Armenians (Syria) and Apostolic Administrator of Baghdad of the Armenians (Iraq), was appointed as Patriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem and Amman of the Armenians (Jordan)