Archeparchy of Ahwaz
Ahvasien(sis) Chaldaeorum
Suffragan archeparchy · Chaldean Church · Ahwaz, Iran
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan archeparchy
- Tradition
- Chaldean Church
- Erected
- 3 January 1966
- Latin
- Ahvasien(sis) Chaldaeorum
- Annuario code
- 001000616
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 25
- Extent
- 1,648,195 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. 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.
The province of Chaldean Patriarchate of Babylon
The sees of this province:
- Archeparchy of Bassorah, BasraBassorah, Basra
- Archeparchy of KerkūkKerkūk
- Archeparchy of Mossul e Aqrā, AkraMosul
- Archeparchy of TeheranTeheran
- Chaldean Patriarchate of BaghdadBaghdad
- Eparchy of DuhokDuhok
- Eparchy of Zākhō dei CaldeiZakho
- Patriarchal Territory of GiordaniaGiordania
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Archbishop’s House, Suleiman Farsi Street, Bldg. 334, Ahwaz, Iran
- Telephone
- [061]222.4980
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].