Suffragan eparchy Zakho, Iraq
Eparchy of Zākhō dei Caldei
Zachuen(sis)
Chaldean Catholic Church
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan was first erected as a diocese in 1851, suppressed into Amadiyah in 2013, and restored as a separate eparchy on 27 June 2020 by decision of Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako. It is directly subject to the Chaldean Patriarchate of Baghdad, with the Cathedral of Mar Gorgis (St. George) in Zakho. Bishop Felix Dawood Al-Shabi has led the eparchy since its 2020 restoration.
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- Established
- 1851
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Eparch
- Felix Dawood Al-Shabi
- Born
- 19 January 1975
- Birthplace
- Karemlesh
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The cathedral
Mar Gorgis Cathedral, Zakho stands in Zakho, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
Through the second half of the 19th century and most of the 20th, the Chaldean Church counted Zakho among its dioceses. In 1987 the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Zakho was merged with the Chaldean diocese of ʿAmadiya; a new bishop was consecrated in December 2001; and in July 2013 Zakho was suppressed to the Diocese of Amadiyah.