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Aqra, properly ʿAqra, was a diocese of the Chaldean Catholic Church founded in the mid-19th century. It was united with the Archeparchy of Mossul to create the Archeparchy of Mossul-Aqra on December 22, 2018.

Background

Before the fourteenth century the [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra or Aqrah region was part of the diocese of Marga, one of the suffragan dioceses in the metropolitan province of Adiabene. This diocese, frequently mentioned in Thomas of Marga's Book of Governors, included the districts of Sapsapa (the Navkur plain south of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra, on the east bank of the Khazir river), Talana and Nahla d'Malka (two valleys around the upper course of the Khazir river), Beth Rustaqa (the Gomel valley) and probably also several villages in the Zibar district. The diocese is first mentioned in the eighth century (the region was probably in the diocese of Beth Nuhadra previously), and several of its bishops are mentioned between the eighth century and the first half of the thirteenth century. By the second half of the thirteenth century the names of two villages in the Gomel valley, Tella and Barbelli (Billan), were also included in the title of the diocese. Two bishops of Tella and Barbelli are known from the second half of the thirteenth century and a third, Isho[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)yahb, was present at the synod of Timothy II in 1318. The diocese is not mentioned thereafter, and no other bishops are known from the [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra region until the nineteenth century.

The Chaldean diocese of Aqra

As far as is known, neither the Mosul nor the Qudshanis patriarchate had a bishop for the [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra region until the nineteenth century. The colophons of the surviving manuscripts from the [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra region invariably mention the Mosul patriarchs of the Eliya line, and there is no evidence that the Qudshanis patriarchs took any interest in the region before the 1830s. Most of the villages in the [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra region were still traditionalist at the beginning of the nineteenth century (though the Zibar villages of Arena and Barzane had Catholic communities before the end of the eighteenth century), and determined efforts by the Chaldean church to convert them to Catholicism in the 1830s shook their traditional loyalty, enabling the Qudshanis patriarchate to exercise some influence in the region for a short period.

The [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra region had a number of Catholic communities by the end of the eighteenth century, which were included in the Chaldean diocese of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Amadiya. Two unsuccessful attempts were made by the patriarch Yohannan VIII Hormizd to give the region its own Chaldean bishop in the 1830s. In 1834, in an attempt to preserve the patriarchal succession in his own family, he sent his nephew Eliya Sefaro to Urmi, where he was consecrated bishop of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra by the Qudshanis patriarch Shem[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)on XVII Abraham. Shortly afterwards Eliya made a Catholic profession of faith and 'was received into the bosom of the Chaldean church'. His consecration was not recognised by the Vatican, and he was suspended. In 1835 he was absolved and sent to Tel Isqof as a priest.^[1] The incident was notorious, and Badger's contemporary account is to be preferred to an alternative tradition preserved by Tfinkdji, who stated that Eliya was consecrated at Qudshanis in 1829, and that the patriarch's motive was to harass his old enemy, the metropolitan of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Amadiya Joseph Audo.

Soon afterwards Yohnnan VIII Hormizd consecrated a metropolitan named Abraham for the [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra region, who went over to the Qudshanis patriarch Shem[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)on XVII Abraham in 1847. In 1850 he was residing in the monastery of Mar [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Abdisho[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help) near Nerem, and was in charge of a diocese of fifteen villages in the [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra region. He is not mentioned again, and as [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra was not included in the dioceses of the Qudshanis patriarchate in 1877 by Cutts, it seems likely that the region had by then returned to its traditional allegiance. In 1852 Eliya Sefaro was again consecrated for [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra, by the patriarch Joseph VI Audo, and a stable Chaldean diocese in the region was finally established. According to a contemporary note in a manuscript from the [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra region, Eliya Sefaro died in Herpa two years after his consecration, on 22 September 1854, and was buried in the village. This date is probably to be preferred to Tfkinkdji's statement (followed by Fiey) that he died in 1863.

Eliya Sefaro was succeeded by Yohannan Eliya Mellus, who was consecrated on 5 June 1864 by Joseph VI Audo. In 1874 Mellus was sent to India during the Malabar schism, and did not return to Kurdistan until 1882. He remained nominally bishop of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra during this period, but was under suspension until 1889, and for several years after his return lived in Mosul. In 1889 he made his submission to pope Leo XIII, and in 1890 was transferred to the diocese of Mardin by the patriarch Eliya XII [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Abulyonan. He was succeeded as bishop of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra by Ya[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)qob Yohannan Sahhar, patriarchal vicar of Basra since 1887, who was consecrated for [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra on 25 March 1893.

At the synod of Alqosh in 1894 the newly elected patriarch [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Abdisho[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help) V Khayyat asked to retain Eliya Joseph Khayyat, bishop-designate of [[Amadiya (Chaldean Diocese)|[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Amadiya]], as his patriarchal vicar, and the dioceses of [[Amadiya (Chaldean Diocese)|[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Amadiya]] and [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra were temporarily united under Ya[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)qob Yohannan Sahhar, who was responsible for the united diocese from 23 April 1895 until his death in 1909.

In 1910 the two dioceses were again divided, and between 1910 and 1945 the diocese of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra was administered by a patriarchal vicar. In 1945 the future patriarch Paul Cheiko was appointed bishop of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra. In 1957 he was replaced by Andrew Sana, who was promoted to Archbishop of Kirkuk in 1977. In 1980 Abdelahad Rabban was appointed bishop of Aqra.

[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Abdalahad Rabban died on 25 July 1998. The diocese of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra has remained vacant since his death, and the few remaining Chaldeans in the [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra district are now under the care of an apostolic administrator, Father Youhanna Issa.

Population statistics

In 1850 the traditionalist diocese of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra included eleven villages in the [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra region and four villages in the Gomel valley, and contained 249 families, 9 priests and 13 churches (Badger). The large villages of Khardes and Herpa and several smaller villages were not included in Badger's list, probably because the majority of their inhabitants were Catholics.

The Chaldean diocese of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra had a population of 2,718 Chaldeans, with 17 priests, in 1867 (Martin); 1,000 Chaldeans, with 8 priests and 12 churches, in 1896 (Chabot); and 2,390 Chaldeans, with 16 priests and 10 churches, in 1913 (Tfinkdji). All of the villages listed in the traditionalist diocese in 1850 (apart from the Zibar villages of Erdil and Beth Kola) had Catholic communities in 1913, but the process of conversion was far from complete. Eleven villages in the diocese of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra in 1896, and the last nine villages listed by Tfinkdji in 1913, were 'semi-Nestorian'. A recently published book by Youel Baaba has supplied the Syriac names of the villages in the diocese of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra.^[2]

Chaldean communities in the diocese of [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra, 1913

Name of Village	Name in Syriac	Number of Believers	Number of Priests	Number of Churches	Name of Village	Name in Syriac	Number of Believers	Number of Priests	Number of Churches
[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra		250	2	1	Dooreh	ܕܘܪܐ	50	1	1
Herpa		200	1	1	Artun		100	1	1
Khardes		120	1	0	Beth Mishmish		150	0	1
Nerem		100	1	1	Beth Nura		80	0	0
Sharmen	ܫܪܡܢ	250	1	1	Gwessa		60	0	0
Shahwipalan		120	1	0	Guppa		40	0	0
Gorgoran		80	1	0	Barzane		90	1	0
Nuhawa	ܢܘܗܒܐ	150	1	1	Beth Sapre		30	0	0
Arena		300	2	1	Mallabarwan		120	1	1
Sanaya		100	1	1	Total		2,390	16	10

Notes

^ Badger, Nestorians, i. 167–8
^ Baaba, The Assyrian Homeland, 69 (Syriac section)

References

Baaba, Youel A., The Assyrian Homeland before World War I (Alamo, California, 2009)
Badger, George Percy (1852). The Nestorians and Their Rituals with the Narrative of a Mission to Mesopotamia and Coordistan in 1842 to 1844 (two volumes). Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4179-4675-4.
Chabot, Jean-Baptiste (1896). "Éttat religieux des diocèses formant le patriarcat chaldéen de Babylone". Revue de l'Orient chrétien. 1: 433-453.
Fiey, J. M., Assyrie chrétienne (3 vols, Beirut, 1962)
Fiey, Jean Maurice (1993). Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus: Répertoire des diocèses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux. Beirut: Orient-Institut. ISBN 9783515057189.
Giamil, Samuel (1902). Genuinae relationes inter Sedem Apostolicam et Assyriorum orientalium seu Chaldaeorum ecclesiam. Roma: Ermanno Loescher.
Martin, P., La Chaldée, esquisse historique, suivie de quelques réflexions sur l'Orient (Rome, 1867)
Tfinkdji, Joseph (1914). "L' église chaldéenne catholique autrefois et aujourd'hui". Annuaire Pontifical Catholique. 17: 449–525.
Tisserant, Eugène (1931). "Église nestorienne". Dictionnaire de théologie catholique. Vol. 11. pp. 157–323.
Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765.
Wilmshurst, David (2011). The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781907318047.

[1] Badger, Nestorians, i. 167–8

[2] Baaba, The Assyrian Homeland, 69 (Syriac section)

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+{{Short description|Former Eastern Catholic diocese in Iraq}}
-{{distinguish|Acra (disambiguation){{!}}Acra|Akra (disambiguation){{!}}Akra|Aqraa|Aqrah}}
+{{hatnote|Not to be confused with [[Acra (disambiguation)|Acra]], [[Accra]], [[Akra (disambiguation)|Akra]], or [[Aqra (disambiguation)|other Aqras]]}}
-'''{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra''' is a diocese of the Chaldean Church.  The diocese was founded in the middle of the nineteenth century.
+'''Aqra''', properly '''ʿAqra''', was a diocese of the [[Chaldean Catholic Church]] founded in the mid-19th century. It was united with the Archeparchy of Mossul to create the [[Archeparchy of Mossul-Aqra]] on December 22, 2018.
 == Background ==
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 As far as is known, neither the Mosul nor the Qudshanis patriarchate had a bishop for the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region until the nineteenth century.  The colophons of the surviving manuscripts from the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region invariably mention the Mosul patriarchs of the Eliya line, and there is no evidence that the Qudshanis patriarchs took any interest in the region before the 1830s.  Most of the villages in the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region were still traditionalist at the beginning of the nineteenth century (though the Zibar villages of Arena and Barzane had Catholic communities before the end of the eighteenth century), and determined efforts by the Chaldean church to convert them to Catholicism in the 1830s shook their traditional loyalty, enabling the Qudshanis patriarchate to exercise some influence in the region for a short period.
-The {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region had a number of Catholic communities by the end of the eighteenth century, which were included in the Chaldean diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Amadiya.  Two unsuccessful attempts were made by the patriarch Yohannan VIII Hormizd to give the region its own Chaldean bishop in the 1830s.  In 1834, in an attempt to preserve the patriarchal succession in his own family, he sent his nephew Eliya Sefaro to Urmi, where he was consecrated bishop of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra by the Qudshanis patriarch Shem{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}on XVII Abraham.  Shortly afterwards Eliya made a Catholic profession of faith and 'was received into the bosom of the Chaldean church'.  His consecration was not recognised by the Vatican, and he was suspended.  In 1835 he was absolved and sent to Tel Isqof as a priest.<ref>Badger, ''Nestorians'', i. 167–8</ref>   The incident was notorious, and Badger's contemporary account is to be preferred to an alternative tradition preserved by Tfinkdji, who stated that Eliya was consecrated at Qudshanis in 1829, and that the patriarch’s motive was to harass his old enemy, the metropolitan of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Amadiya Joseph Audo.
+The {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region had a number of Catholic communities by the end of the eighteenth century, which were included in the Chaldean diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Amadiya.  Two unsuccessful attempts were made by the patriarch Yohannan VIII Hormizd to give the region its own Chaldean bishop in the 1830s.  In 1834, in an attempt to preserve the patriarchal succession in his own family, he sent his nephew Eliya Sefaro to Urmi, where he was consecrated bishop of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra by the Qudshanis patriarch Shem{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}on XVII Abraham.  Shortly afterwards Eliya made a Catholic profession of faith and 'was received into the bosom of the Chaldean church'.  His consecration was not recognised by the Vatican, and he was suspended.  In 1835 he was absolved and sent to Tel Isqof as a priest.<ref>Badger, ''Nestorians'', i. 167–8</ref>   The incident was notorious, and Badger's contemporary account is to be preferred to an alternative tradition preserved by Tfinkdji, who stated that Eliya was consecrated at Qudshanis in 1829, and that the patriarch's motive was to harass his old enemy, the metropolitan of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Amadiya Joseph Audo.
-Soon afterwards Yohnnan VIII Hormizd consecrated a metropolitan named Abraham for the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region, who went over to the Qudshanis patriarch Shem{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}on XVII Abraham in 1847.  In 1850 he was residing in the monastery of Mar {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Abdisho{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}} near Nerem, and was in charge of a diocese of fifteen villages in the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region.   He is not mentioned again, and as {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra was not included in the dioceses of the Qudshanis patriarchate in 1877 by Cutts, it seems likely that the region had by then returned to its traditional allegiance.  In 1852 Eliya Sefaro was again consecrated for {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra, by the patriarch Joseph VI Audo, and a stable Chaldean diocese in the region was finally established.  According to a contemporary note in a manuscript from the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region, Eliya Sefaro died in Herpa two years after his consecration, on 22 September 1854, and was buried in the village.   This date is probably to be preferred to Tfkinkdji's statement (followed by [[Fiey]]) that he died in 1863.
+Soon afterwards Yohnnan VIII Hormizd consecrated a metropolitan named Abraham for the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region, who went over to the Qudshanis patriarch Shem{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}on XVII Abraham in 1847.  In 1850 he was residing in the monastery of Mar {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Abdisho{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}} near Nerem, and was in charge of a diocese of fifteen villages in the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region.   He is not mentioned again, and as {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra was not included in the dioceses of the Qudshanis patriarchate in 1877 by Cutts, it seems likely that the region had by then returned to its traditional allegiance.  In 1852 Eliya Sefaro was again consecrated for {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra, by the patriarch Joseph VI Audo, and a stable Chaldean diocese in the region was finally established.  According to a contemporary note in a manuscript from the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region, Eliya Sefaro died in Herpa two years after his consecration, on 22 September 1854, and was buried in the village.   This date is probably to be preferred to Tfkinkdji's statement (followed by [[Jean Maurice Fiey|Fiey]]) that he died in 1863.
 Eliya Sefaro was succeeded by Yohannan Eliya Mellus, who was consecrated on 5 June 1864 by Joseph VI Audo.  In 1874 Mellus was sent to India during the Malabar schism, and did not return to Kurdistan until 1882.  He remained nominally bishop of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra during this period, but was under suspension until 1889, and for several years after his return lived in Mosul.  In 1889 he made his submission to pope Leo XIII, and in 1890 was transferred to the diocese of Mardin by the patriarch Eliya XII {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Abulyonan.  He was succeeded as bishop of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra by Ya{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}qob Yohannan Sahhar, patriarchal vicar of Basra since 1887, who was consecrated for {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra on 25 March 1893.
-At the synod of Alqosh in 1894 the newly-elected patriarch {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Abdisho{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}} V Khayyat asked to retain Eliya Joseph Khayyat, bishop-designate of [[Amadiya (Chaldean Diocese)|{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Amadiya]], as his patriarchal vicar, and the dioceses of [[Amadiya (Chaldean Diocese)|{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Amadiya]] and {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra were temporarily united under Ya{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}qob Yohannan Sahhar, who was responsible for the united diocese from 23 April 1895 until his death in 1909.
+At the synod of Alqosh in 1894 the newly elected patriarch {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Abdisho{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}} V Khayyat asked to retain Eliya Joseph Khayyat, bishop-designate of [[Amadiya (Chaldean Diocese)|{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Amadiya]], as his patriarchal vicar, and the dioceses of [[Amadiya (Chaldean Diocese)|{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Amadiya]] and {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra were temporarily united under Ya{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}qob Yohannan Sahhar, who was responsible for the united diocese from 23 April 1895 until his death in 1909.
-In 1910 the two dioceses were again divided, and between 1910 and 1945 the diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra was administered by a patriarchal vicar.  In 1945 the future patriarch Paul Cheiko was appointed bishop of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra.  In 1957 he was replaced by Andrew Sana, who died in 1977.  In 1980 the diocese was placed under the care of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Abdalahad Rabban, apostolic administrator of Suleimaniya.
+In 1910 the two dioceses were again divided, and between 1910 and 1945 the diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra was administered by a patriarchal vicar.  In 1945 the future patriarch Paul Cheiko was appointed bishop of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra.  In 1957 he was replaced by Andrew Sana, who was promoted to Archbishop of Kirkuk in 1977.  In 1980 Abdelahad Rabban was appointed bishop of Aqra.
-{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Abdalahad Rabban died on 25 July 1999.  The diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra has remained vacant since his death, and the few remaining Chaldeans in the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra district are now under the care of an apostolic administrator, Father Youhanna Issa.
+{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Abdalahad Rabban died on 25 July 1998.  The diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra has remained vacant since his death, and the few remaining Chaldeans in the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra district are now under the care of an apostolic administrator, Father Youhanna Issa.
 == Population statistics ==
 In 1850 the traditionalist diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra included eleven villages in the {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra region and four villages in the Gomel valley, and contained 249 families, 9 priests and 13 churches (Badger).  The large villages of Khardes and Herpa and several smaller villages were not included in Badger's list, probably because the majority of their inhabitants were Catholics.
-The Chaldean diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra had a population of 2,718 Chaldeans, with 17 priests, in 1867 (Martin); 1,000 Chaldeans, with 8 priests and 12 churches, in 1896 (Chabot); and 2,390 Chaldeans, with 16 priests and 10 churches, in 1913 (Tfinkdji).  All of the villages listed in the traditionalist diocese in 1850 (apart from the Zibar villages of Erdil and Beth Kola) had Catholic communities in 1913, but the process of conversion was far from complete.   Eleven villages in the diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra in 1896, and the last nine villages listed by Tfinkdji in 1913, were 'semi-Nestorian'.  A recently-published book by Youel Baaba has supplied the Syriac names of the villages in the diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra.<ref>Baaba, ''The Assyrian Homeland'', 69 (Syriac section)</ref>
+The Chaldean diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra had a population of 2,718 Chaldeans, with 17 priests, in 1867 (Martin); 1,000 Chaldeans, with 8 priests and 12 churches, in 1896 (Chabot); and 2,390 Chaldeans, with 16 priests and 10 churches, in 1913 (Tfinkdji).  All of the villages listed in the traditionalist diocese in 1850 (apart from the Zibar villages of Erdil and Beth Kola) had Catholic communities in 1913, but the process of conversion was far from complete.   Eleven villages in the diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra in 1896, and the last nine villages listed by Tfinkdji in 1913, were 'semi-Nestorian'.  A recently published book by Youel Baaba has supplied the Syriac names of the villages in the diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra.<ref>Baaba, ''The Assyrian Homeland'', 69 (Syriac section)</ref>
 ''Chaldean communities in the diocese of {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra, 1913''
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+| style="text-align:left" | {{transl|ar|DIN|ʿ}}Aqra||<big></big>||250||2||1
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+| style="text-align:left" | [[Dooreh, Iraq|Dooreh]]||<big></big>ܕܘܪܐ||50||1||1
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+|  style="text-align:left" | Herpa||<big></big>||200||1||1
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+|  style="text-align:left" | Artun||<big></big>||100||1||1
 |-
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+|  style="text-align:left" | Khardes||<big></big>||120||1||0
-|  style="text-align:left" | Beth Mishmish||<big><big>||150||0||1
+|  style="text-align:left" | Beth Mishmish||<big></big>||150||0||1
 |-
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+|  style="text-align:left" | Nerem||<big></big>||100||1||1
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+|  style="text-align:left" | Beth Nura||<big></big>||80||0||0
 |-
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+|  style="text-align:left" | Sharmen||<big></big>ܫܪܡܢ||250||1||1
-|  style="text-align:left" | Gwessa||<big><big>||60||0||0
+|  style="text-align:left" | Gwessa||<big></big>||60||0||0
 |-
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+|  style="text-align:left" | Shahwipalan||<big></big>||120||1||0
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+|  style="text-align:left" | Guppa||<big></big>||40||0||0
 |-
-|  style="text-align:left" | Gorgoran||<big><big>||80||1||0
+|  style="text-align:left" | Gorgoran||<big></big>||80||1||0
-|  style="text-align:left" | Barzane||<big><big>||90||1||0
+|  style="text-align:left" | [[Barzan, Iraq|Barzane]]||<big></big>||90||1||0
 |-
-|  style="text-align:left" | Nuhawa||<big><big>||150||1||1
+|  style="text-align:left" | Nuhawa||<big></big>ܢܘܗܒܐ||150||1||1
-|  style="text-align:left" | Beth Sapre||<big><big>||30||0||0
+|  style="text-align:left" | Beth Sapre||<big></big>||30||0||0
 |-
-|  style="text-align:left" | Arena||<big><big>||300||2||1
+|  style="text-align:left" | Arena||<big></big>||300||2||1
-|  style="text-align:left" | Mallabarwan||<big><big>||120||1||1
+|  style="text-align:left" | Mallabarwan||<big></big>||120||1||1
 |-
-|  style="text-align:left" | Sanaya||<big><big>||100||1||1
+|  style="text-align:left" | Sanaya||<big></big>||100||1||1
-|  style="text-align:left" | Total||<big><big>||2,390||16||10
+|  style="text-align:left" | Total||<big></big>||2,390||16||10
 |}
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-* Chabot, J. B., 'État religieux des diocèses formant le patriarcat chaldéen de Babylone au 1er janvier 1896', ''Revue de l'Orient Chrétien'', 1 (1898), 433–53
+* {{Cite journal|last=Chabot|first=Jean-Baptiste|author-link=Jean-Baptiste Chabot|title=Éttat religieux des diocèses formant le patriarcat chaldéen de Babylone|journal=Revue de l'Orient chrétien|year=1896|volume=1|page=433-453|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BAA2AAAAIAAJ}}
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-* Fiey, J. M., ''Pour un Oriens Christianus novus; répertoire des diocèses Syriaques orientaux et occidentaux'' (Beirut, 1993)
+* {{Cite book|last=Fiey|first=Jean Maurice|author-link=Jean Maurice Fiey|title=Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus: Répertoire des diocèses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux|year=1993|location=Beirut|publisher=Orient-Institut|isbn=9783515057189|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cE5tAAAAMAAJ}}
-* Giamil, S., ''Genuinae Relationes inter Sedem Apostolicam et Assyriorum Orientalium seu Chaldaeorum Ecclesiam'' (Rome, 1902)
+* {{Cite book|last=Giamil|first=Samuel|author-link=Samuel Giamil|title=Genuinae relationes inter Sedem Apostolicam et Assyriorum orientalium seu Chaldaeorum ecclesiam|year=1902|location=Roma|publisher=Ermanno Loescher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pL0WmAEACAAJ}}
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-* Tfinkdji, J., 'L’église chaldéenne catholique autrefois et aujourd’hui', ''Annuaire Pontifical Catholique'', 17 (1914), 449–525
+* {{Cite journal|last=Tfinkdji|first=Joseph|title=L' église chaldéenne catholique autrefois et aujourd'hui|journal=Annuaire Pontifical Catholique|year=1914|volume=17|pages=449–525}}
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+* {{Cite book|last=Tisserant|first=Eugène|author-link=Eugène Tisserant|chapter=Église nestorienne|title=Dictionnaire de théologie catholique|year=1931|volume=11|pages=157–323|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JxhAAQAAMAAJ}}
-* Wilmshurst, D. J., ''The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913'' (Louvain, 2000)
+* {{Cite book|last=Wilmshurst|first=David|title=The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913|year=2000|location=Louvain|publisher=Peeters Publishers|isbn=9789042908765|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jB8ir0ek8bgC}}
+* {{Cite book|last=Wilmshurst|first=David|title=The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East|year=2011|location=London|publisher=East & West Publishing Limited|isbn=9781907318047|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfxNtwAACAAJ}}
+{{Chaldean Catholic Hierarchy}}
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-[[Category:Assyrian geography]]
+[[Category:Chaldean Catholic dioceses]]
-[[Category:Bishops of the Assyrian Church of the East]]
-[[Category:Chaldean bishops]]
-[[Category:Chaldean Catholic Church]]

v t e Chaldean Catholic Church episcopal hierarchy
Patriarchate	Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Baghdad (List) at Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows in Baghdad, Iraq
Metropolitan archeparchies	Baghdad Kirkuk-Sulaimaniya Tehran Urmyā
Other archeparchies	Ahvaz Basra Diyarbakir Arbil Mosul
Eparchies	Aleppo Alqosh Aqra (Akra) Beirut Cairo Mar Addai of Toronto Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney Salmas (suffragan of Urmya) Amadiyah and Zaku
Patriarchal dependencies	Jerusalem Jordan
Titular sees	Metropolitan : Rew-Ardashir / Other Archiepiscopal : Kaškar, Nisibis / Episcopal : Anbar, Mardin, Seert
Other former eparchies	Amadia, Gazireh, Perat-Maishan, Sulaimaniya, Zaku
See also	Dioceses of the Church of the East after 1552
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v t e Dioceses of the Church of the East
Hierarchy divided into the Chaldean Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East after the schism of 1552
Time periods	Dioceses of the Church of the East to 1318 Dioceses of the Church of the East, 1318–1552 Dioceses of the Church of the East after 1552
Interior metropolitan provinces to 1318	Adiabene Beth Garmaï Beth Huzaye Maishan Nisibis Patriarchal Province of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Exterior metropolitan provinces to 1318	Beth Sinaye (China) Beth Tuptaye (Tibet) Dailam Damascus Fars Herat Hulwan India Islands of the Sea Kashgar and Nevaketh Katai and Ong Merv Rai Samarqand Tangut
dioceses to 1318	Abiward and Shahr Piroz Adarbaigan Al-Bariya Al-Kuj Al-Qabba Al-Rustaq Aoustan d'Arzun Armenia Ardashir Khurrah (Shiraf) Arzun [[Dioceses of the Church of the East to 1318\|[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aïn Sipne]] Badisi and Qadistan Balad Barhis Beth Bgash Beth Daraye Beth Dasen Beth Lapat Beth Mazunaye (Oman) Beth Moksaye Beth Nuhadra Beth Rahimaï Beth Tabyathe and the Kartawaye Beth Waziq Beth Zabdaï Bih Shabur (Kazrun) Dabarin Dairin Darabgard Dasqarta d'Malka Delasar Dinawar Egypt Erbil Eshnuq Gawkaï Gubeans Gurgan Haditha Hagar Hamadan Hamir Harran and Callinicus Hatta Hebton Herat Hesna d'Kifa Hirta Hormizd Ardashir Hrbath Glal Ispahan Istakhr Jerusalem Jews Karka d'Beth Slokh Karka d'Ledan Karka d'Maishan Karman Kashkar Khanijar Lashom Mahoze d'Arewan Mardin Marga Marmadit Masabadan Mashkena d'Qurdu Mashmahig (Bahrain) [[Adiabene (East Syriac ecclesiastical province)\|Ma[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)altha and Hnitha]] Merw i-Rud Meskene Mihraganqadaq Mosul Muqan Nahargur [[Patriarchal Province of Seleucia-Ctesiphon\|Niffar, Nil and al-Nu[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)maniya]] Nihawand Nineveh Piroz Shabur Prath d'Maishan Pusang Qaimar Qarta and Adarma Qasr and Nahrawan Qish Qube d'Arzun Radani Ram Hormizd Ramonin [[Nisibis (East Syriac ecclesiastical province)\|Resh[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)aïna]] Rima Salakh Salmas Segestan Seleucia-Ctesiphon Shahpur Khwast Shahrgard Shahrzur Shenna d'Beth Ramman [[Shigar (East Syriac diocese)\|Shigar and Beth [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Arabaye]] Shushter Soqotra Susa Taimana Tahal Tamanon Tirhan Tus and Abrashahr (Nishapur) Urmi [[Patriarchal Province of Seleucia-Ctesiphon\|[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Ukbara]] [[Fars (East Syriac ecclesiastical province)\|Yemen and Sana[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)a]] Zabe
Post-1318 dioceses (See also: dioceses from 1318 to 1552 and dioceses after 1552)	Ahwaz Alqosh Amid Anzel Ardishai Atel and Bohtan [[Amadiya (Chaldean diocese)\|[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Amadiya]] [[Aqra\|[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Aqra]] Berwari Cyprus Erbil (East Syriac diocese) Erbil (Chaldean archeparchy) Gawar Gazarta Hakkari Jilu Kirkuk Mardin Mosul Nisibis Salmas Seert Sehna Shemsdin Tis Tuleki Zakho
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