Archeparchy of Baghdad (Babilonia)
Babylonen(sis) Syrorum
Archeparchy of the patriarchate · Syriac Catholic Church · Baghdad (Babilonia), Iraq
Syriac Catholic archeparchy of Baghdad, erected 28 September 1862 for Syriac Catholic faithful in central Iraq. Its seat is the Sayidat al-Nejat (Our Lady of Salvation) Cathedral in Baghdad, site of the 2010 massacre of worshippers.
The see
- Rank
- Archeparchy of the patriarchate
- Tradition
- Syriac Catholic Church
- Erected
- 28 September 1862
- Latin
- Babylonen(sis) Syrorum
- Annuario code
- 001000787
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 200,000
- Priests
- 20
- Catholics per priest
- 10,000
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
- Archbishop
- Yousif Abba
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
Sayidat al-Nejat (Our Lady of Salvation) Cathedral, Baghdad stands in Baghdad (Babilonia), 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.
History
Among the ecclesiastical territories of the Syriac Catholic Church in Iraq is the Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad. It is not a metropolitan see: exempt, it depends directly on the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch without belonging to his or any other ecclesiastical province, and in Rome it answers to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. Its cathedral, the Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral, stands in the episcopal see and national capital of Baghdad.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Archevêché Syrien Catholique, 903-2-1 Baghdad, Alkarrada, Iraq
- Telephone
- [0770]414.9010
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 statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.