Suffragan eparchy Salmas, Iran
Diocese of Salmas
Salmasien(sis)
Chaldean Catholic Church
Salmas is an eparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church (Eastern rite, not Latin) in northwest Iran, suffragan to the metropolitan Archeparchy of Urmya. It has long been administered jointly with Urmya and is currently under patriarchal administrator Archbishop Imad Khoshaba Gargees.
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- Established
- 1709
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
- Apostolic Administrator
- Imad Khoshaba Gargees
- Born
- 4 April 1978
- Birthplace
- Komane
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The cathedral
Catedral de San Yaghou stands in Salmas, 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
The district of Salmas in northwest Iran served for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an archdiocese of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Today it forms part of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Urmyā.