This article is about the Eastern Catholic Church based in Iraq. For the Indian archbishopric of the Assyrian Church of the East, see Chaldean Syrian Church. For the early history of the church, see Church of the East.
Chaldean Catholic Church
Classical Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܟܠܕܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝܬܐ
Interior of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows in Baghdad, Iraq.
Classification
Eastern Catholic
Orientation
Syriac Christianity (Eastern)
Scripture
Peshitta[1]
Theology
Catholic theology
Governance
Holy Synod of the Chaldean Church[2]
Pope
Francis
Patriarch
Louis Raphaël I Sako
Region
Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon with diaspora
Language
Liturgical: Syriac[3]
Liturgy
East Syriac Rite
Headquarters
Cathedral of Mary Mother of Sorrows, Baghdad, Iraq
Founder
Traces ultimate origins to Thomas the Apostle and the Apostolic Era through Addai and Mari, Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa
Origin
1552
Separated from
Church of the East
Separations
Assyrian Church of the East (1830), Chaldean Syrian Church (1907)
Members
616,639 (2018)[4]
Other name(s)
Chaldean Patriarchate
Official website
chaldeanpatriarchate.com
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The Chaldean Catholic Church[a] is an Eastern Catholic particular church (sui iuris) 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 (mainly in Iraq).[5]
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom reports that, according to the Iraqi Christian Foundation, an agency of the Chaldean Catholic Church, approximately 80% of Iraqi Christians are of that church.[6] In its own 2018 Report on Religious Freedom, the United States Department of State put the Chaldean Catholics at approximately 67% of the Christians in Iraq.[7] The 2019 Country Guidance on Iraq of the European Union Agency for Asylum gives the same information as the United States Department of State.[8]
^Introduction To Bibliology: What Every Christian Should Know About the Origins, Composition, Inspiration, Interpretation, Canonicity, and Transmission of the Bible
^Synod of the Chaldean Church | GCatholic.org
^"The Chaldean Catholic Church". CNEWA. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
^Eastern Catholic Churches Worldwide 2018
^Statistics on Christians in the Middle East
^Brief Summary on Iraqi Christians
^Iraq 2018 International Religious Freedom Report, p. 3
^European Asylum Support Office: Country Guidance - Iraq (June 2019), p. 70
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