Report: Patriarch to leave Baghdad, lead Chaldean church from Kurdistan
July 17, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church since 2013, is leaving Baghdad for semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan (map), according to a newspaper published in the United Arab Emirates.
The National cited a conflict over Church properties between Cardinal Sako and Rayan al-Kildani, a Christian militia leader sanctioned by the US for human rights violations.
The church (CNEWA profile) is among the Eastern Catholic churches in full communion with the Holy See.
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