Archeparchy of Baghdad, Iraq 🇮🇶 (Armenian Rite) (original) (raw)
History
- 1954.06.29: Established as Archdiocese of Baghdad / Babylonen(sis) Armenorum (Latin) (from Archdiocese of Mardin and without ecclesiastical province)
Present Prelates
| Archbishop (2023.05.27 – ...): |  Archbishop Nersès Joseph Zabbara (55) |
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Ordinaries
| Archbishops of Baghdad (Armenian Rite) |
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| Archbishop Nersès Joseph Zabbara (55) (2023.05.27 – ...)Archbishop of Baghdad of the Armenians (Iraq) |
| Fr. Nersès Joseph Zabbara (55) (later Archbishop) (Apostolic Administrator 2018.06.23 – 2023.05.27) |
| Archbishop Emmanuel Dabbaghian, I.C.P.B. (2007.01.26 – 2017.10.09)Born:1933.12.26 (Aleppo, Syria)Ordained Priest:1967.12.25Consecrated Bishop:2007.08.04Died:2018.09.13 (Beirut, Lebanon †84)Archbishop of Baghdad of the Armenians (Iraq) ([2006.09.13] 2007.01.26 – 2017.10.09) |
| Fr. Andon Atamian (Apostolic Administrator 2001 – 2006) |
| Archbishop Paul Coussa (1983.06.27 – 2001.10.13)Born:1917.09.09 (Syria)Ordained Priest:1941.04.17Consecrated Bishop:1969.12.21Died:2012.07.07 (†94)Titular Archbishop of Colonia in Armenia (1969.08.26 – 1983.06.27)Patriarchal Exarch of Damascus of the Armenians (Syria) (1969.08.26 – 1983.06.27)Archbishop of Baghdad of the Armenians (Iraq) (1983.06.27 – 2001.10.13) |
| Archbishop Hovhannes Kasparian, I.C.P.B. (later Patriarch) (1972.12.06 – 1982.08.05) |
| Archbishop Nersès Tayroyan (1954.06.29 – 1972.10.01)Born:1895.03.21 (Iraq)Ordained Priest:1919.12.21Consecrated Bishop:1940.10.27Died:1986.08.04 (†91)Archbishop of Mardin of the Armenians (1940.05.03 – 1954.06.29)Archbishop of Baghdad of the Armenians (Iraq) (1954.06.29 – 1972.10.01)Titular Archbishop of Melitene of the Armenians (1972.10.01 – 1986.08.04) |
Statistics (2022.12.31)
Population: 500 Catholics
Pastoral Centres: 2 parishes
Personnel: 2 priests (1 diocesan, 1 religious), 4 deacons, 2 religious (2 brothers), 2 seminarians