Eastern metropolitan see Teheran, Iran
Archeparchy of Teheran
Teheranen(sis) Chaldaeorum
Chaldean Catholic Church
The Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archeparchy of Tehran (East Syriac rite) was established in 1853 at Sanandaj (Sehna), relocated to Tehran in 1944, and renamed Archeparchy of Tehran on 16 March 1971. Its cathedral is St. Joseph's Chaldean Cathedral in Tehran; the see is a metropolitan archeparchy without suffragans. Archbishop Imad Khoshaba Gargees was appointed on 10 November 2023, succeeding Ramzi Garmou.
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- Established
- 1853
- Catholics
- 1,780
- Priests
- 3
Parishes and churches
5 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Cathedral of St. JosephTehran · CathedralView parish
- ConsolataHamedan · CathedralView parish
- St. JosephQazvin · CathedralView parish
- Surp Grigor LusavorichTehran · CathedralView parish
- Church of Hazrat MaryamQazvinView parish
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The bishop
- Archbishop
- Imad Khoshaba Gargees
- Born
- 4 April 1978
- Birthplace
- Komane
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The cathedral
St. Joseph's Cathedral, Tehran stands in Teheran, 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
St. Joseph's Cathedral in Tehran, the Iranian capital, is the archiepiscopal see of the Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archeparchy of Tehran (Latin: Archidioecesis Teheranensis Chaldaeorum), an Eastern archdiocese of the Chaldean Catholic church of the Syro-Oriental Rite. Though it holds metropolitan rank, it has no suffragan.