Archeparchy of Urmyā

The see

Rank

Eastern metropolitan see

Tradition

Chaldean Catholic Church

Erected

1890

Latin

Urmien(sis)

Annuario code

001000052

The see in figures

Catholics

1,000

Priests

2

Catholics per priest

500

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

Apostolic Administrator

Imad Khoshaba Gargees

Born

4 April 1978

Birthplace

Komane

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

Cathedral of St. Mary the Mother of God, Urmia stands in Urmyā, 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.

The province of Urmya (Chaldean), metropolitan with suffragan Salmas

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

With its episcopal see in Urmia, West Azerbaijan Province, in north-west Iran, the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Urmiā (also spelled Urmia, also called Rezayeh, and informally Urmyā of the Chaldeans) is a metropolitan archeparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church, of the Syro-Oriental Rite in the Syriac language. Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is the Cathedral of St. Mary the Mother of God in Urmia, Iran.

Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia · GCatholic

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