The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, with the Chaldean Patriarchate having been originally formed out of the Church of the East in 1552. Employing the East Syriac Rite in Syriac language in its liturgy, it is part of Syriac Christianity by heritage. Headquartered in the Cathedral of Mary Mother of Sorrows, Baghdad, Iraq, since 1950, it is headed by the Catholicos-Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako. It comprises 640,828 members, mostly Chaldean Christians living in northern Iraq, with smaller numbers in adjacent areas in northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and northwestern Iran, a region roughly corresponding to ancient Assyria. There are also many Chaldeans in diaspora in the Western world.
The Catholic Church in Egypt is considerably small as compared to the rest of the Christian population in Egypt, which is a significant minority among Muslims. The Catholic population in Egypt is said to have begun during the British control of Egypt. However, many returned to Europe after the 1952 Revolution in Egypt, which also caused the overthrow and exile of King Farouk of Egypt. Catholics in Egypt belong to seven distinct ritual Particular Churches sui iuris, the largest being the Coptic Catholic Church, led by its Patriarch of Alexandria.
In the Catholic Church, an apostolic visitor is a papal representative with a transient mission to perform a canonical visitation of relatively short duration. The visitor is deputed to investigate a special circumstance in a diocese or country, and to submit a report to the Holy See at the conclusion of the investigation.
The Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria is the Patriarchal and only Metropolitan see of the head of the Eastern sui iuris Coptic Catholic Church, a particular Church in the Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See, which follows the Alexandrian Rite in its own Coptic language. He is thus the superior of all Coptic dioceses, mostly in and around Egypt, Copt(ic) being corruptions of the Greek word for Egypt(ian).
There are over 300,000 Catholics living in Iraq, just 0.95% of the total population. The Catholics of Iraq follow several different rites, but most are members of the Chaldean Catholic Church. There are 17 currently active dioceses and eparchies in Iraq.
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon is the Ukrainian Greek Catholic eparchy for the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit is the sole eparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church sui iuris for half of the United States and is exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, not part of an ecclesiastical province.
John Bura is a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He has served as the Auxiliary Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia since 2006. From 2009 to 2014 he served as the Apostolic Administrator of the Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma.
Ibrahim Namo Ibrahim is a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the Apostolic Exarch of United States of America from 1982 to 1985, and then, following its elevation, as the first eparch (bishop) of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit, from 1985 until his retirement was accepted by Pope Francis on Saturday, May 3, 2014. Bishop Francis Y. Kalabat was named to succeed him as Eparch.
Gazireh is a town in Turkish Kurdistan, double former eparchy and former Latin Independent mission.
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aqra is an Eastern Catholic eparchy (diocese) of the Chaldean Catholic Church in northern Iraq.
The Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad is a non-metropolitan Archeparchy of the Armenian Catholic Church, covering Iraq.
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aleppo is the only eparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Syria.
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Beirut is the sole eparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church for all Lebanon.
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto is the sole eparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Canada.
The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Ahvaz (informally called Ahvaz of the Chaldeans) is a non-Metropolitan archeparchy of the particular Chaldean Catholic Church sui iuris in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran.
Emanuel Hana Shaleta is a prelate of the Chaldean Catholic Church and serves as eparch for the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego.
