Yousif Abba

 

Ephrem Yousif Abba Mansoor (born 18 June 1951, Bakhdida, Iraq) is a Syriac Catholic cleric and the current archbishop of Baghdad.

Abba received his priestly ordination from Emmanuel Daddi, the former Archbishop of Mosul, on 30 June 1978. He was the chancellor of the Syrian Catholic Church leadership of the United States and Canada.

He was elected Archbishop of Baghdad on 26 June 2010 by the Holy Synod of the Syrian Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI consented to the election on 1 March 2011.[1] The Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, Ignatius Joseph III Younan, presided at his episcopal ordination on 16 April. His Co-Consecrators were his predecessors, Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka, Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, and the curia Archbishop of the Patriarchate of Antioch, and the emeritus Archbishop of Mosul, Basile Georges Casmoussa.

Positions

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka		 Archbishop of Baghdad
2011 - present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent

References

  1. ↑ „Vatikan/Irak: Neue Bischöfe für Bagdad und Mosul“, Radio Vatikan, 1.
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