Archbishop of Erbil
The Archbishop of Erbil of the Chaldeans (or archepach) is the most senior member of the Catholic clergy in the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Erbil.
Erbil is a Chaldean Rite see.
The archdiocese was split from the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Kirkuk on the 7 March 1968. It revives an ancient diocese of the Assyrian Church of the East, which lapsed in the seventeenth century.
List of archbishops and apostolic administrators
- Archbishop Bashar Matte Warda, C.SS.R. (24 May 2010 – ...)
- Bishop Rabban Al-Qas (apostolic administrator) (2007 – 24 May 2010)
- Archbishop Yacoub Denha Scher (12 January 2001 – 8 January 2005)
- Archbishop Jacques Ishaq (7 May 1997 – 4 May 1999)
- Archbishop Hanna Markho (5 August 1994 – 23 October 1996)
- Archbishop Stéphane Babaca (28 October 1969 – 5 August 1994)
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