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Scholar who assisted others during ISIS invasion is Mosul’s new archbishop
December 24, 2018
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis assented to the Chaldean Catholic Church’s election of Father Najib Mikhael Moussa, OP, as the new archbishop of Mosul. The archivist “is passionate for his people and their heritage,” Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil tweeted. “He greatly assisted the persecuted and displaced Mosul and Nineveh people” in the wake of the Islamic State’s 2014 invasion of Iraq.
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