Iraqi bishops’ standoff now at ‘higher ecclesiastical court’, cardinal says

Cardinal Sako said Saturday that he has handed off a canonical dispute, a move widely perceived as an act of de-escalation within the Chaldean Church

The Patriarch of Baghdad has forwarded his canonical complaint against several Chaldean bishops to “the higher ecclesiastical court,” according to a statement on September 7.

Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako. Image via Chaldean Catholic Church

The statement did not specify to which higher canonical authority he had forwarded his threatened canonical action aga…