Chaldean Patriarchate

Chaldean Patriarchate of the Chaldean Catholic Church Patriarchatus Chaldaeorum
Catholic
Incumbent: Louis Raphaël I Sako elected 31 January 2013
Location
Country	Iraq
Headquarters	Baghdad, Iraq
Information
First holder	Saint Thomas the Apostle as Patriarch of the Church of the East
Denomination	Chaldean Catholic Church
Rite	East Syriac Rite
Established	Apostolic Era[1] 280 as Diocese of Seleucia-Ctesifonte[2] 1553 as Eastern Catholic Patriarchate[3]
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows
Language	East-Syriac
Website
saint-adday.com

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. He is assisted by the archbishop of Erbil Shlemon Warduni and the Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad .^[4][5][6] Its cathedral is the Church of Mary Mother of Sorrows in Baghdad, Iraq.

Chaldean Catholics are the majority of Assyrians in Iraq, an indigenous people of North Mesopotamia.^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

Etymology[]

In the seventeenth–century, the Roman Catholic Church succeeded in forming a schism within the Church of the East. Joseph I (1681–1696), who served as the Metropolitan of Amid (modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey) was won over by Rome and led the Catholic off-shoot of the Church of the East. His successor, Joseph II (1696–1713), was officially bestowed with the symbolic but unmeaning title Patriarch of Babylon. Although this patriarchate was established in the city of Diyarbakır, it was eventually moved to the city of Mosul and finally to Baghdad where it remains to this day. The title Patriarch of Babylon or Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans remained in popular usage until the name Babylon was officially abandoned in August, 2021.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17]}

See also[]

• List of Chaldean Catholic Patriarchs of Babylon
• Chaldean Catholic Church
• Council of Catholic Patriarchs of the East

References[]

Sources[]

• Wigram, William Ainger (1910). An Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church or The Church of the Sassanid Persian Empire 100-640 A.D. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. ISBN 9780837080789.
• Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765.
• Wilmshurst, David (2011). The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781907318047.

External links[]

• Website of the Patriarchate
• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy.org entry