Sarhad Jammo

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Mar Sarhad Yawsip Hermiz Jammo (born March 14, 1941 in Baghdad ) is an Iraqi clergyman and emeritus Chaldean Catholic Bishop of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego and liturgical scholar .

Life

The son of the teacher and journalist Yousif Hermiz Jammo (1892-1965) studied at the Chaldean Patriarchal Seminary in Mosul and at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome. There he received the December 19, 1964 at priestly ordination and was 1968 by the Oriental Pontifical Institute for Doctor PhD . He then worked as a pastor and rector of the seminary in Baghdad, from 1977 in the USA. With the establishment of a Chaldean diocese in North America, he was appointed vicar general in 1991 . In 1993 he received a teaching assignment for Eastern Church liturgies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.

On May 21, 2002 he was appointed the first bishop of the newly established diocese of Saint Peter the Apostle of the Chaldeans in San Diego . The Patriarch of Babylon , Raphael I Bidawid , ordained him episcopal on July 21 of the same year . Co- consecrators were Emmanuel Delly , Archbishop of the Curia of the Patriarchate, and Ibrahim Namo Ibrahim , Bishop of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit .

After the death of Raphael I Bidawid, he was next to Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo (Syria) one of the candidates for successor in the patriarchal office. But neither of them was able to get the necessary majority of the electoral synod. Finally Emmanuel III was elected. Delly .

Pope Francis accepted his age-related resignation on May 7, 2016.

Works

literature

  • Anthony O'Mahony: The Chaldaean Catholic Church: The Politics of Church-State Relations in Modern Iraq . In: Heythrop Journal 45 (2004) 447.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. rinuncia del Vescovo dell'Eparchia Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego dei Caldei (USA) e nomina dell'Amministratore Apostolico sede vacante. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , May 7, 2016, accessed May 8, 2016 (Italian).