Addai II.

Mar Addai II , Syriac-Aramaic : ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ Shleemin Gheevargese, (born August 1, 1950 , earlier according to older information) is the current Catholicos - Patriarch of the "Old Apostolic and Catholic Church of the East" .

He is a member of the tribe of Lower Tyari with no hereditary bishopric. By Mar Thomas Darmo he was born on 15 September 1968 on the deacon , on 21 September for the priests , and on September 22, the first of his race to the Bishop and Metropolitan of Baghdad consecrated. As such, he participated in the appointment of Darmo to the counter-patriarch of Mar Shimun XXIII. After Darmo's death (September 7, 1969), five bishops elected him as his successor in February 1970. He was ordained patriarch on February 20, 1972, with political delay.

Its jurisdiction includes four dioceses in the Middle East as well as three in Europe, North America and Australia with an estimated total of 100,000 believers.

In Mar Dinkha IV he had an opposing patriarch in the USA.

Web links

• Our history. The Holy Apostolic Catholic Church Of The East. St Zaia Cathedral, Middleton Grange, New South Wales, 2014, accessed July 13, 2016 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Thomas Darmo	Catholicos-Patriarch of the "Church of the East" (old calendar) 1970–