Eparchy of Adiabene
Adiaben(sis) Syrorum
Eparchy of the patriarchate · Syrian · Erbil, Iraq
Syriac Catholic eparchy of Adiabene (Hadiab), erected 28 June 2019 from the territory of the Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul to serve Syriac Catholics in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaymaniyah governorates). Its seat is the Queen of Peace (Sultana al-Salam) Cathedral in Ankawa, Erbil, and it is not part of an ecclesiastical province.
The see
- Rank
- Eparchy of the patriarchate
- Tradition
- Syrian
- Erected
- 28 June 2019
- Latin
- Adiaben(sis) Syrorum
- Annuario code
- 001005095
The bishop
- Eparch
- Nathanael Nizar Wadih Semaan
- Born
- 1 January 1965
- Birthplace
- Qaraqosh
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Queen of Peace (Sultana al-Salam) Cathedral, Ankawa, Erbil stands in Erbil, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].