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Eparchy of Adiabene

Adiaben(sis) Syrorum

Syriac Catholic eparchy of Adiabene (Hadiab), erected 28 June 2019 from the territory of the Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul to serve Syriac Catholics in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaymaniyah governorates). Its seat is the Queen of Peace (Sultana al-Salam) Cathedral in Ankawa, Erbil, and it is not part of an ecclesiastical province.

The see

Rank
Eparchy of the patriarchate
Tradition
Syriac Catholic Church
Erected
28 June 2019
Latin
Adiaben(sis) Syrorum
Annuario code
001005095

The see in figures

Catholics
100
Priests
5
Catholics per priest
20

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Eparch
Nathanael Nizar Wadih Semaan
Born
1 January 1965
Birthplace
Qaraqosh

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Queen of Peace (Sultana al-Salam) Cathedral, Ankawa, Erbil stands in Erbil, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Sultant Al Salam Cathedrial, Ankawa Erbil, Iraq

This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.

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Sources

Compiled from the published references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.