Archeparchy Baghdad (Armenians)

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Archeparchy Baghdad (Armenians)
Basic data
Rite church Armenian Catholic Church
Country Iraq
Diocesan bishop Sedis vacancy
Apostolic Administrator Nersès Zabbara
founding 1954
Parishes 2 (December 31, 2007 / AP2008 )
Catholics 2,000 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
Diocesan priest 2 (December 31, 2007 / AP2008 )
Catholics per priest 1,000
Friars 1 (December 31, 2007 / AP2008 )
Religious sisters 1 (December 31, 2007 / AP2008 )
rite Armenian rite
Liturgical language Armenian
cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of Nareg
address Archeveche Armenia Catholique
Karrada Sharkia
Section 903
rue 27
BP 2344
Baghdad, Iraq

The Archeparchy of Baghdad ( Latin Archieparchia Babylonensis Armenorum ) is an archdiocese of the Armenian Catholic Church united with the Roman Catholic Church.

With the Apostolic Constitution Cum summus , Pope Pius XII. the archbishopric on June 29, 1954 from cessions of territory of the dissolved Archeparchy Mardin . The remnants of the Mardin Archepark became the Kamichlié Eparchy .

The Arch Parchy has no suffragan dioceses .

Since the 1970s, the number of believers has always moved around 2,000 in 2 parishes , but the number of diocesan priests fell from 4 to 2 by 2002. The number of religious sisters also fell from 6 to 3. Between the retirement of Archbishop Paul Coussa in 2001 and the election of Emmanuel Dabbaghan in 2006 (confirmation by the Pope: January 2007) the Armenian Catholic bishopric of Baghdad was vacant .

Arch parish of Baghdad

  1. Nersès Tayroyan (1954–1972)
  2. Jean Pierre XVIII. Kasparian (1972–1982, then Patriarch of Cilicia )
  3. Paul Coussa (1983-2001)
  4. Emmanuel Dabbaghian (2007-2017)
  5. Sedis vacancy (since 2017)

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