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The Syriac Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Christian jurisdiction originating in the Levant that uses the West Syriac Rite liturgy and has many practices and rites in common with the Syriac Orthodox Church. Being one of the twenty-three Eastern Catholic Churches, the Syriac Catholic Church is a self-governed sui iuris particular church, while it is in full communion with the Holy See and with the entirety of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Syro-Malabar Church, also known as the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic church based in Kerala, India. It is a sui iuris (autonomous) particular church in full communion with the Holy See and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEO). The major archbishop presides over the entire church. The incumbent Major Archbishop is Raphael Thattil, serving since January 2024. It is the largest Syriac Christian church and the largest Eastern Catholic church. Syro-Malabar is a prefix reflecting the church's use of the East Syriac liturgy and origins in Malabar. The name has been in usage in official Vatican documents since the nineteenth century.
The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Patriarchate. Employing in its liturgy the East Syriac Rite in the Syriac dialect of the Aramaic language, it is part of Syriac Christianity. Headquartered in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows, Baghdad, Iraq, since 1950, it is headed by the Catholicos-Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako. According to a 1950 CIA report on Iraq, Chaldean Catholic Assyrians numbered 98,000 and were the largest Christian minority. In the late 2010s, it had a membership of 616,639, with a large population in diaspora and its home country of Iraq.
The Eparchy of Irinjalakuda is a suffragan eparchy in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Thrissur in Kerala state's Thrissur District, southern India.It is part of the Syro-Malabar Church.
Mar George Garmo was the Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul in Iraq from 14 September 1980 until his death on 9 September 1999.
The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul is a diocese of the Chaldean Catholic Church, located in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Its followers are ethnic Assyrians and speakers of Neo-Aramaic. The diocese comprises the city of Mosul. The territory is subdivided in 12 parishes.
The Melkite Greek Eparchy of Saint Michael Archangel is based in Sydney suburb of Darlington, Australia. The eparchy is administered by Bishop Robert Rabbat. The Rt. Rev. Abdallah Sayegh is the current vicar general. The eparchy was established in March 1987.
The Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle is a Chaldean Catholic diocese in Sydney, Australia, and is immediately subject to the Holy See.
Sarhad Yawsip Hermiz Jammo is a Chaldean Catholic prelate of the Chaldean Catholic Church who presided over the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego in the United States. He had been the bishop of this diocese since its inception on July 25, 2002. His bishopric currently sits at St. Peter's Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon, California.
Chaldean Eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle is a Chaldean Catholic Church eparchy of the Catholic Church in the Western United States. It practices the Syro-Oriental Rite in the Syriac/Arameic language. It is exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province. Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Peter's Chaldean Catholic Cathedral, located in El Cajon, California.
Dioceses of the Church of the East after 1552 were dioceses of the Church of the East and its subsequent branches, both traditionalist and pro-Catholic.
The Syriac Catholic Church, established in the second half of the 17th century as an Eastern Catholic offshoot of the Syriac Orthodox Church, had around a dozen dioceses in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. Three of these dioceses were ruined during the First World War in the Assyrian and Armenian massacres, and the 20th century also saw the growth of an important Syriac Catholic diaspora in America, Europe and Australasia. As of 2012 the Syriac Catholic Church has fifteen dioceses, mostly in the Middle East, and four patriarchal vicariates for the diaspora communities.
The Chaldean Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle in Detroit is a Chaldean Catholic Church eparchy of the Catholic Church in the Eastern United States. It practices the Syro-Oriental Rite in Classical Syriac. It is exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province. Its cathedral episcopal see is Our Lady of Chaldeans Cathedral, located in Southfield, Michigan, United States.
St. Peter Cathedral is a Chaldean Catholic cathedral located in El Cajon, California, United States. It is the seat for the Eparchy of St. Peter the Apostle.
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 in 2014. Bishop Francis Y. Kalabat was named to succeed him as Eparch.
The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Basra is a non-metropolitan Archeparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church in southern Iraq.
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto is the sole eparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Canada.
