Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Arbil
The Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil is a Chaldean Catholic diocese with its seat in Erbil, Kurdistan Region. Erected in 1968 with territory taken from the Archeparchy of Kirkuk, it is immediately subject to the Patriarchal See of Babylon. The see of the archbishop is the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Ankawa, a suburb of Erbil.
Mar Yousif Cathedral in Ankawa, Erbil
Bashar Warda 2015
St Joseph's Cathedral, Ankawa
The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Patriarchate. Employing in its liturgy the East Syriac Rite in the Syriac dialect of the Aramaic language, it is part of Syriac Christianity. Headquartered in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows, Baghdad, Iraq, since 1950, it is headed by the Catholicos-Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako. In 2010, it had a membership of 490,371, of whom 310,235 (63.27%) lived in the Middle East.
Rabban Hormizd Monastery, in the mountains northeast of Alqosh, the historically most significant monastery of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
Credentials of Abdisho IV Maron, Sulaqa's successor, to the Council of Trent in 1562
Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Ankawa, Archeparchy of Arbil.
St. Joseph Chaldean Catholic Church, Tehran
