Archdiocese of Mossul, Iraq (Syriac Rite)

Continent: Central and Southwest Asia

Rite: Syriac (Antiochian)

Type: Archdiocese

Name: Mossul / Mosul (English) / Mausilien(sis) Syrorum (Latin)

Subject to the Patriarch

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

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History

1790: Established as Archdiocese of Mossul / Mosul (English) / Mausilien(sis) Syrorum (Latin) (without ecclesiastical province)
2019.06.28: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Adiabene

Papal Visits

Pope Francis (2021.03)

Present Prelates

Archbishop (2023.01.07 – ...):

Archbishop Younan Hano (Qusay Mubarak Abdullah) (41)

Ordinaries

Archbishops of Mossul (Syriac Rite)

Archbishop Younan Hano (Qusay Mubarak Abdullah) (41)
(2023.01.07 – ...)

Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Born:	1982.09.10 (Qaraqosh, Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	2011.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2023.02.03

Priest of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) (2011.06.29 – 2023.01.07)

Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) (2023.01.07 – ...)

Archbishop Ephram Yousif Abba (72)
(Patriarchal Administrator 2021.09.18 – 2023.01.07)

Archbishop Boutros Moshe (80)
(2011.03.01 – 2021.09.18)

Archbishop emeritus of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Born:	1943.11.23 (Qaraqosh, Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	1968.06.09
Consecrated Bishop:	2011.04.16

Priest of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) (1968.06.09 – 2011.03.01)

Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) (2011.03.01 – 2021.09.18)

Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa (85)
(1999.09.22 – 2011.03.01)

Apostolic Visitator in Australia of the Syriacs
Archbishop emeritus of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq)

Born:	1938.10.25 (Karakoche, Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	1962.06.10
Consecrated Bishop:	1999.12.09

Priest of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) (1962.06.10 – 1999.09.22)

Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) ([1999.05.08] 1999.09.22 – 2011.03.01)

Bishop of Curia of the Syriacs (2011.03.01 – 2017.06.21)

Apostolic Visitator in Western Europe of the Syriacs (2014.01.13 – 2017.06.21)

Apostolic Visitator in Australia of the Syriacs (2017.06.21 – ...)

Archbishop Cyrille Emmanuel Benni
(1959.10.23 – 1999.09.22)

Born:	1921.01.01 (Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	1944.07.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1959.12.08
Died:	1999.12.09 († 78)

Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) ([1959.10.06] 1959.10.23 – 1999.09.22)

Archbishop Jules Georges Kandela
(1952.03.07 – 1959.08.23)

Born:	1889.12.03 (Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	1913.06.15
Consecrated Bishop:	1951.08.15
Died:	1980.04.15 († 90)

Titular Bishop of Cephas ([1951.04.26] 1951.08.15 – 1952.03.07)

Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) ([1952.02.20] 1952.03.07 – 1959.08.23)

Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch of the Syriacs (Lebanon) (1959.08.23 – 1971)

Titular Archbishop of Seleucia Pieria (1959.08.23 – 1980.04.15)

Archbishop Atanasio Giorgio (Cyrille) Dallal
(1926.07.31 – 1951.12.14)

Born:	1876.10.20 (Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	1900.05.17
Consecrated Bishop:	1912.11.24
Died:	1951.12.14 († 75)

Archbishop of Baghdad of the Syriacs (Iraq) (1912.09.04 – 1926.07.31)

Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) (1926.07.31 – 1951.12.14)

Archbishop Grégoire Pierre Habra
(1901.08.16 – 1924.03.24)

Born:	1856.12.03 (Syria)
Died:	1933.03.21 († 76)

Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) (1901.08.16 – 1924.03.24)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Damascus of the Syriacs (Syria) (1924.03.24 – 1933.03.21)

Archbishop Cyrille Behnam Benni (later Patriarch)
(1862 – 1893.10.12)

Born:	1831.08.14 (Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	1856.03.16
Consecrated Bishop:	1862.03.09
Died:	1897.09.13 († 66)

Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) (1862 – 1893.10.12)

Bishop of Mardin and Amida of the Syriacs (1893.10.12 – 1897.09.13)

Patriarch of Antioch of the Syriacs (Lebanon) ([1893.10.12] 1894.05.18 – 1897.09.13)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Archbishop: Archbishop Nathanael Nizar Wadih Semaan (59) (2019.03.27 – 2019.08.30)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Syriac Cathedral of St. Thomas, Mosul

Homs (↙), Hassaké–Nisibi (←), Adiabene (→), Baghdad (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 4,890 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 19 parishes, 5 missions

Personnel: 58 priests (32 diocesan, 26 religious), 11 deacons, 26 religious (26 brothers), 3 seminarians

Syriac Archdiocese of

Mossul