Diocese of Salmas
Salmasien(sis)
Suffragan eparchy · Chaldean Catholic Church · Salmas, Iran
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Chaldean Catholic Church
- Erected
- 1709
- Latin
- Salmasien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002852
The bishop
- Apostolic Administrator
- Imad Khoshaba Gargees
- Born
- 4 April 1978
- Birthplace
- Komane
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
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.
The province of Urmya
A suffragan of Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Urmya.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Khalifagari Kaldani Katholiq, P.O. 338, Urmia 57135, Iran
- Telephone
- [044]32222.739; fax 32236.031
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].