Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aqra

The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aqra (also spelled Aqrā or Akra) is an Eastern Catholic eparchy (diocese) of the Chaldean Catholic Church (which uses the Syro-Oriental Rite) in northern Iraq.

It is a suffragan of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and has its cathedral episcopal see in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Akra.

History

The eparchy was established in 1850, on territory split off from the then Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Amadiyah.

It was suppressed and merged back into its mother on 23 April 1895, where its eparch acceded the cathedral throne, but was restored from it on 24 February 1910.

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