Archeparchy Mosul (Chaldeans)

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Archeparchy Mosul (Chaldeans)
Basic data
Rite church Chaldean Catholic Church
Country Iraq
Diocesan bishop Najib Mikhael Moussa OP
founding 1967
surface 528 km²
Parishes 10 (2004)
Residents 1,739,800 (2004)
Catholics 20,600 (2004)
proportion of 1.2%
Diocesan priest 10 (2004)
Religious priest 4 (2004)
Catholics per priest 1,471
Permanent deacons 1 (2004)
Friars 6 (2004)
rite Chaldean rite
Liturgical language Arabic
cathedral Chaldean al-Tahira Cathedral , Chaldean Church of St. Paul (Mosul) ( Procathedral )
address Mayassa
BP 757
Mosul
Iraq
Dair Mar Elia Abbey

The Archeparchy of Mosul ( Latin: Archieparchia Mausiliensis Chaldaeorum ) is a Chaldean Catholic Archeparch with its seat in Mosul , Iraq, unified with the Roman Catholic Church .

The diocese was established on February 14, 1967; The forerunner was a prelature . The archepary is led by an archbishop who is also pastor of the St. Paul's Procathedral . The current diocese was built by Archbishop George Garmo . On December 7, 2004, the cathedral was badly damaged in a bomb attack. The bishopric was then rebuilt about 10 km away.

Since 2008, the Archeparchy of Mosul has been the focus of an emerging persecution of Christians in Iraq, with threats from Islamist militias, the introduction of special taxes or the threat of marrying Christian daughters to Muslim men. Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was kidnapped and murdered in 2008.

The Dair Mar Elia (St. Elijah) abbey, founded in 571 AD, is located in the diocesan area .

Ordinaries

Archbishops of Mosul

Churches in the Archeparchy of Mosul

  • St. Miskenta the Martyrs, Al-Mayasa (Al-Sa'a)
  • St. Isaiah, Ras Al Koor
  • St. Paul, Hai Al-Majmou'a
  • Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Dawasa
  • St. Joseph, Al-Mayda
  • Church of the Virgin Mary, Al-Dargazliya
  • St. Ephrem, Mousal Al-Jadida
  • Sacred Heart Church, Tel Keppe
  • St. Addai, Karamles

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ORF : “The difficult fate of Christians in Iraq” , March 14, 2008
  2. Kaldaya.net: "Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was seized as he left a church in the eastern al-Nour district, it added" , February 29, 2008
  3. Vatican Radio : "Iraq: Kidnapped Archbishop Murdered" , March 13, 2008
  4. William Warda: Early Assyrian Churches and Monasteries in northern Iraq ( Memento of January 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), therein Dair Mar Elia or St. Elijah's Monestary on the Christians of Iraq website, accessed on January 20, 2010