Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad
The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad is a non-metropolitan archeparchy (Eastern Catholic archdiocese) of the Syriac Catholic Church sui iuris (Antiochian Rite in Syriac language) for the central part of Iraq.
It is directly dependent on the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch (actually in Beirut), not part of his or any other ecclesiastical province, and in Rome depends on the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is the Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral, in Iraqi national capital Baghdad.
History
Established on 1862.09.28 as Archeparchy (Archdiocese) of Baghdad, on Iraqi territory previously without proper Ordinary of the particular church sui iuris.
Episcopal ordinaries
- Archeparchs (Archbishops) of Baghdad
- Atanasio Raffaele Ciarchi (1872 – ?)
- Athanase Ignace Nuri (1894.03.11 – retired 1908), Titular Archbishop of Hierapolis in Syria of the Syriacs (1908 – death 1946.11.09)
- Atanasio Giorgio (Cyrille) Dallal (1912.09.04 – 1926.07.31), later Archeparch (Archbishop) of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) (1926.07.31 – death 1951.12.14)
- Atanasio Behnam Kalian (1929.08.06 – death 1949.02.17), Titular Bishop of Bahtnæ of the Syriacs (1921.02.26 – 1929.08.06), Auxiliary Eparch (Auxiliary Bishop) of the patriarchate Antioch of the Syriacs (Lebanon) (1921.02.26 – 1929.08.06), Auxiliary Eparch of Mardin and Amida of the Syriacs (Turkey) (1921.02.26 – 1929.08.06)
- Atanasio Paolo Hindo (1949.08.05 – death 1953.08.14), previously Titular Bishop of Arethusa of the Syriacs (1949.01.18 – 1949.08.05)
- Athanase Jean Daniel Bakose (1953.12.02 – death 1983.01.12)
- Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka (1983.07.15 – 2011.03.01), succeeded as former Titular Bishop of Dara Syrorum of the Syriacs (1979.08.25 – 1983.07.15) & Auxiliary Eparch of Baghdad of the Syriacs (1979.08.25 – 1983.07.15); later Patriarchal Exarch of Basra and the Gulf of the Syriacs (Iraq) (1997 – 2001)
- Yousif Abba (2011.03.01 – present)
See also
- Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mossul (non-metropolitan archdiocese in northern Iraq)
- Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Basra and the Gulf (in southern Iraq and Kuwait)