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Church in Iraq
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Analysis
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Chaldean Catholic Church

Who will be Baghdad’s next patriarch?

JD Flynn
Apr 09, 2026
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The bishops of the Chaldean Catholic Church will begin a meeting in Rome on Thursday, with the aim of electing the next patriarch of their Eastern Catholic Church.

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Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows in Baghdad, Iraq. Credit: Christian World/wikimedia CC BY SA 2.0

But while the Chaldean episcopate gathers to elect a leader at a time of acute crisis for their…

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