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Suffragan eparchy Salmas, Iran

Diocese of Salmas

Salmasien(sis)

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.

On the map

Esri
Salmas, Iran, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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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.

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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.