Eparchy of Adiabene
Adiaben(sis) Syrorum
Eparchy of the patriarchate · Syriac Catholic Church · Erbil, Iraq
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
- Telephone
- [0750]0800.908
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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Compiled from the published references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.