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St. Joseph Chaldean Catholic Church, Tehran. In 1838, the Kurds of Soran attacked the Rabban Hormizd Monastery and Alqosh, apparently thinking the villagers were Yazidis responsible for the murder of a Kurdish chieftain, and killed over 300 Chaldean Catholics, including Gabriel Dambo, the refounder of the monastery, and other monks.
History. Founded. 1843. The Cathedral of our Lady of Sorrows, also called Cathedral of Mary Mother of Sorrows, ( Arabic: كنيسة أم الأحزان, romanized : Umm al-Ahzan Church) is a Chaldean Catholic cathedral located in Baghdad, Iraq, dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows. [1] Consecrated in 1898, it is the seat of the Chaldean Catholic ...
The Chaldean Catholic Church is a uniate descendant of the ancient (Assyrian) Apostolic Church of the East (sometimes called Nestorian). Its members still preserve the use of Syriac (Eastern Aramaic) as their liturgical language. It was established in 1551, and its patriarch is resident in Baghdad.
Official website. The Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Baghdad, or simply the Chaldean Patriarchate (Latin: Patriarchatus Chaldaeorum), is the official title held by the primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church. The patriarchate is based in the Cathedral of Mary Mother of Sorrows, Baghdad, Iraq. The current patriarch is Louis Raphaël I Sako.
Cardinal Louis Sako was welcomed warmly by a church packed with members of the country’s Christian minority as he led his first mass in Baghdad on Friday after returning the day before. Sako had ...
Louis Raphaël I Sako (Arabic: لويس روفائيل ساكو; [1] born 4 July 1948) is a Chaldean Catholic prelate who has served as Patriarch of Baghdad since 1 February 2013. Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 28 June 2018. In 2023, amid an ongoing dispute with the Iraqi government, he announced he would leave Baghdad for Iraqi Kurdistan.
The Sayidat al-Nejat [2] (or "Our Lady of Salvation") Syriac Catholic [3] church in Karrada, a middle-class district in Baghdad with many Christian churches, was one of the churches attacked with a car bomb, killing two people and wounding 90. [2] The 2004 attacks were claimed by a previously unknown group, but the claim could not be verified. [17]
Diocese. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad. The St. Joseph's Cathedral [1] ( Arabic: كاتدرائية القديس يوسف) or Latin Cathedral of St. Joseph [2] is a Catholic cathedral located on al-Jumhuriya Street in Baghdad, [3] [4] the capital of Iraq . Because it is in the jurisdiction of the Latin Church, it is sometimes called the ...