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St. Joseph Assyrian Catholic Church [1] (Persian: کلیسای جامع سنت جوزف کاتولیک آشوری), also called the Chaldean Catholic cathedral of Tehran, is a Catholic Church building in Tehran, Iran, in which the Chaldean rite is followed. It is located north of Enqelab Street, Shahid Abbas Moussavi.
Construction of Saint Joseph's Church began on a 1000 sqm area at the entrance of Ankawa, Erbil, in 1978 while Stephan Babaka was archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil. The church was built at government expense with volunteer labor from the people of Ankawa and consecrated in 1981.
Because it is in the jurisdiction of the Latin Church, it is sometimes called the Latin Cathedral of St. Joseph in order to distinguish it from the Chaldean Cathedral of St. Joseph dedicated to the same saint but belonging to the Chaldean Catholic Church (also in communion with the Holy See). St.
St. Joseph Chaldean Catholic Church, Tehran. In 1838, the Kurds of Soran attacked the Rabban Hormizd Monastery and Alqosh, apparently thinking the villagers were Yazidis responsible for the murder of a Kurdish chieftain, and killed over 300 Chaldean Catholics, including Gabriel Dambo, the refounder of the monastery, and other monks. [69]
Saint Joseph's Cathedral, [1] (Arabic: كاتدرائية القديس يوسف) also called the Chaldean Cathedral of Aleppo, is the cathedral in Aleppo, Syria, of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aleppo of the Chaldean Catholic Church. [2] [3] The eparchy has been operating since 1957 when it was created by Pope Pius XII through the Bull ...
St. Joseph's Cathedral, Tehran.. The Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archeparchy of Tehran (Latin: Archidioecesis Teheranensis Chaldaeorum) is an Archeparchy (Eastern Archdiocese) of the Chaldean Catholic church (Syro-Oriental Rite) in Iran, with its archiepiscopal see, St. Joseph's Cathedral, in the national capital Tehran.
The Catholic Church in Iran is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. In 2022, there were about 21,380 Catholics in Iran out of a total population of about 86.8 million. [1] They are part of the Armenian Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholic Church and Latin Church.
Cathedrals of the Chaldean and Syriac Catholic Churches in Iraq: [1] Cathedral of Mary Mother of Sorrows in Baghdad Chaldean Catholic Church. Cathedral of St. Joseph in Baghdad; Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral in Baghdad (Syrian/Antiochian Rite) Cathedral of Our Lady of Nareg in Baghdad (Armenian Rite) Cathedral of Our Lady in Mosul Chaldean ...