List of Chaldean Catholic patriarchs of Baghdad

This is a list of Chaldean Patriarchs of Babylon, the leaders of the Chaldean Catholic Church and one of the Patriarchs of the east of the Roman Catholic Church. The patriarchate was recognized by the Holy See following the reconciliation of Mar Yohanan Soulaqa VIII with Rome in 1552. This list continues from the Nestorian succesion that traces itself back from St. Thomas in the 1st century.

Chaldean Patriarchs of Babylon

(The Catholic Patriarchs were originally based in Diyarbakir)

• 91 Mar Yohanan Soulaqa VIII 1552-1555
• 92 Mar Abdisho IV Maroun 1555-1567
• vacant
• 93 Mar Yab-Alaha V 1578-1580

(With Mar Shimun IX Denkha, the Patriachate transferred to Urmia.)

• 94 Mar Shimun IX Denkha 1580-1600
• 95 Mar Elia Shimun X 1600-1638
• 96 Mar Eshuyow Shimun XI 1638-1656
• 97 Mar Yoalaha Shimun XII 1656-1662

(With Mar Shimun XIII Denkha, the Patriachate transferred to Qochanis.)

• 98 Mar Shimun XIII Denkha 1662-1681 (1700)

In 1681 Mar Shimun XIII Denkha broke communion with Rome and a rival Chaldean Patriarch was appointed by the Vatican; The church then appointed a new patriarch based in Diyarbakir. Mar Shimun XIII continues to be patriarch and his succesors are leaders of the Assyrian Church of the East

(The Chaldean Patriarchs based in Diyarbakir.)

• 99 Mar Yusuf I 1681-1695
• 100 Mar Yusuf II 1696-1713
• 101 Mar Yusuf III 1713-1757
• 102 Mar Yusuf IV 1757-1781
• vacant
• 103 Mar Yusuf V 1804-1828
• vacant

(With Yohannan Hormez, the Patriachate transferred to Mosul.)

• 104 Yohannan VII Hormez 1830-1838
• vacant
• 105 Nicolas Zaya 1840-1848
• 106 Joseph VI Audo 1848-1878
• 107 Elie XIV Abo-Alyonan 1878-1894
• 108 Abdisho V Khayat 1894-1899
• 109 Joseph Emmanuel II Toma 1900-1946

(With Joseph Ghanima, the Patriachate transferred to Baghdad.)

• 110 Joseph VII Ghanima 1946-1958
• 111 Paul II Cheikho 1958-1989
• 112 Raphael I BeDaweed 1989-2003
• 113 Emmanuel III Delly 2003-present

See also

• List of Patriarchs of Babylon, a list of Nestorian succesion