Archeparchy of Mossul
Mausilien(sis) Syrorum
Archeparchy of the patriarchate · Syriac Catholic Church · Mossul, Iraq
The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul (Antiochene rite) was established in 1790 and is immediately exempt to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, belonging to no ecclesiastical province. As of 2014 it pastorally served about 45,000 Catholics in 15 parishes and two missions in and around Mosul, northern Iraq. The current archbishop is Younan Hano.
The see
- Rank
- Archeparchy of the patriarchate
- Tradition
- Syriac Catholic Church
- Erected
- 1790
- Latin
- Mausilien(sis) Syrorum
- Annuario code
- 001002302
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 45,000
- Priests
- 56
- Catholics per priest
- 804
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Younan Hano
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
Church of Saint Thomas stands in Mossul, 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.
The province of Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch
The sees of this province:
- Apostolic Exarchate of Bassorah e GolfoBasra
- Archeparchy of Alep, Beroea, HalabAlep
- Archeparchy of Damas, Aš-Šām, Damasco, DimašqDamas, Aš-Šām, Damasco, Dimašq
- Archeparchy of Hassaké-NisibiHassaké
- Archeparchy of Homs, EmesaHoms, Emesa
- Eparchy of Bairut, BeirutBeirut
- Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of AntiochAntiochia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Northern Iraq is home to the Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul, informally Mossul of the Syriacs, an ecclesiastical territory of the Syriac Catholic Church. Not a metropolitan see and part of no ecclesiastical province, it is immediately exempt to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and to the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches. The Syriac Catholic Cathedral in the episcopal see of Mosul serves as its cathedral.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Archevêché Syrien Catholique, Baghdeda [Qaraqosh], Mosul, Iraq
- Telephone
- [0750]5398.893
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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].