Suffragan archeparchy Ahwaz, Iran
Archeparchy of Ahwaz
Ahvasien(sis) Chaldaeorum
Chaldean Catholic Church
The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Ahvaz (Ahwaz) is a non-metropolitan archeparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, established on 3 January 1966 from territory of the Archeparchy of Tehran. It is directly dependent on the Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon and not part of any ecclesiastical province. The see has been vacant since 2011 and is overseen by a patriarchal administrator.
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- Established
- 1966
- Catholics
- 25
- Territory
- 1,648,195 km²
Parishes and churches
2 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
No bishop is recorded for this diocese. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Surp Mesrob Church, Ahvaz stands in Ahwaz, 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.
History
In Ahvaz, in Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran, the Chaldean Catholic Church sui iuris (Syro-Oriental Rite in the Syriac language) maintains the Archeparchy of Ahvaz (or Ahwaz), informally Ahvaz of the Chaldeans, a non-Metropolitan archeparchy. Belonging to no ecclesiastical province, it depends directly on the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon. Surp Mesrob Church in Ahvaz is its cathedral archiepiscopal see.