Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad
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The Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad is a non-metropolitan
archdiocese) of the Armenian Catholic Church, covering Iraq
.
It is directly dependent of the
Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia, but not part of his Metropolitan ecclesiastical province
.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Nareg, in the Iraqi national capital Baghdad, after which the archeparchy s colloquially known as Baghdad of the Armenians.
History
It was established on 29 June 1954, on territory split off from the (now titular)
Eparchy of Kameshli (Al-Qamishli, in Syria
), and was itself suppressed in 1972), whose Eparch was transferred to the Baghdad daughter see.
Episcopal ordinaries
- Non-Metropolitan Archeparchs (Archbishops) of Baghdad of the Armenians.
- Nersès Tayroyan (1954.06.29 – 1972.10.01), previously Archbishop of mother archeparchy Titular Archbishop of Melitene of the Armenians(1972.10.01 – death 1986.08.04)
- Cilicia of the Armenians(Lebanon) ([1982.08.05] 1982.08.07 – 1999.09.08), President of Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church (1982.08.07 – 1999.09.08)
- Syria of the Armenians(Syria) (1969.08.26 – 1983.06.27)
- Apostolic AdministratorAndon Atamian (2001–2006)
- Emmanuel Dabbaghian, I.C.P.B. (2007.01.26 – 2017)
