Jibrail Kassab

Jibrail Kassab
Archbishop of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney
See	Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney
Installed	21 October 2006
Term ended	15 January 2015
Successor	Amel Shimoun Nona
Previous post	Archbishop of Basra
Orders
Ordination	19 January 1961
Consecration	5 May 1996 by Raphaël I Bidawid
Personal details
Born	(1938-08-04) 4 August 1938 Tel Keppe, Kingdom of Iraq

Ordination history of Jibrail Kassab
History Episcopal consecration Principal consecrator Mar Raphael I Bidawid Co-consecrators Archbishop Georges Garmo Date 5 May 1996

Jibrail Kassab (born 4 August 1938) is an Iraqi Chaldean Catholic hierarch who served as Chaldean Eparch of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney from 2006 to 2015.

Biography

Kassab was born in Tel Keppe, Iraq, to an Assyrian family. He was ordained a priest on 19 January 1961. Following 35 years of service in the priesthood, he was elevated to the episcopate by the then Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Mar Raphael I Bidawid. Upon his installation, his first post was Archeparc of Basra.

Following the difficult plight of Iraq's Chaldean Christians during the Iraq War, Pope Benedict XVI transferred Kassab to a safer area and created the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney to cover all of Australia and New Zealand; he installed Kassab as its eparch in 2006.

External links

• Kaldu.org – Eparchy of St Peter the Apostle website
• Catholic Hierarchy.org
• GCatholic.org Website