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The
Chaldean Catholic Church or the
Chaldean Church of Babylon () is an
Eastern particular church of the
Roman Catholic Church, maintaining
full communion with the
Bishop of Rome and the rest of the
Catholic Church. The Chaldean Catholic Church presently comprises an estimated 600,000 - 700,000
Chaldean Christians.
History
The Chaldean Church descends from the
Church of the East: After the massacres of
Tamerlane around 1400 had devastated several bishoprics, Patriarch Shimun IV (1437-1493) made the office hereditary within his own family Dissent over this practice grew until in 1552 a group of bishops refused to accept the hereditary succession of Shimun VII Ishuyau bar Mama (1539-1558). The Chronicle of the Carmelites states that Sulagga was proclaimed "Patriarch of the Eastern Assyrians" but on
April 19 1553 the title was changed to "Patriarch of the Chaldeans", to distinguish his group from the Assyrian church
The most recent development in the Chaldean Rite of the Catholic Church has been the creation of the
Eparchy of Oceania, with the title of 'St Thomas the Apostle of Sydney of the Chaldeans'.
This jurisdiction includes the Chaldean Catholic communities of Australia and New Zealand, and the first Bishop, named by Pope Benedict XVI on 21st October 2006, is Archbishop Djibrail Kassab, until this date, Archbishop of Bassorah in Iraq.
The church's relations with the
Assyrian Church of the East have improved in recent years. A meeting in 1996 between
H.H Mar Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church and Mar Raphael I Bidawad of the Chaldean Catholic Church began an effort to bring the two churches into eventual communion.
The current Patriarch is Cardinal
Mar Emmanuel III Delly, elected in 2003 on the death of Mar Bidawid. In October of 2007 Delly became the first Chaldean Catholic to be elevated to the rank of
Cardinal within the Roman Catholic Church.
There has been a large immigration to the
United States particularly to
Southeast Michigan. There is also a population in parts of
California and
Arizona. Several thousands are stranded in passage . The church's most notable member was
Saddam Hussein's foreign minister,
Tariq Aziz.
Hierarchy
Chaldean-Assyrian Catholic Church in Iran
Chaldean Christian Martyrs
Fr. Ragheed Aziz Ganni, with subdeacons Basman Yousef Daud, Wahid Hanna Isho, and Gassan Isam Bidawed, 3 June 2007, Mosul, Iraq.
Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho and three companions, 29 February 2008, Mosul, Iraq.Further Information
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