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From today's Vatican Bollettino (sorry, only available in Italian at the moment): EREZIONE DELL'EPARCHIA CALDEA DI OCEANIA E NOMINA DEL PRIMO VESCOVO
Il Papa ha eretto l'Eparchia caldea di Oceania con il titolo di "San Tommaso Apostolo di Sydney dei Caldei" ed ha nominato S.E. Mons. Djibrail Kassab, primo Vescovo della nuova Eparchia, trasferendolo dalla sede di Bassorah, e conservando al Presule il titolo di Arcivescovo "ad personam".
S.E. Mons. Djibrail Kassab
� nato a Telkef il 4 agosto 1938 nell'Arcieparchia di Mossul. Ha compiuto gli studi di Filosofia e Teologia al Seminario Patriarcale Caldeo a Mossul.
� stato ordinato sacerdote a Baghdad il 19 gennaio 1961 e fino al 1966 ha insegnato Filosofia al Seminario Maggiore, svolgendovi anche l'incarico di Economo. Per qualche tempo � stato Rettore del Seminario Minore. Nel 1966 gli � stata affidata la Parrocchia del Sacro Cuore a Baghdad, che ha retto ininterrottamente e con grande zelo e dedizione fino alla sua elezione ad Arcivescovo di Bassorah.
Ha ricevuto l'assenso pontificio il 24 ottobre 1995 ed il 5 maggio 1996 � stato ordinato Vescovo.
Dati statistici
Il numero complessivo dei fedeli Caldei in Oceania si aggira sulle ventinovemila unit�. In Australia vi sono circa ventiseimila fedeli di cui: circa 14.000 sono a Melbourne, serviti da tre sacerdoti, con due chiese, sale di insegnamento per catechismo ed una scuola; circa 12.000 fedeli sono a Sidney, serviti da tre sacerdoti, con una chiesa e tre missioni nei sobborghi della citt�.
In Nuova Zelanda i Caldei superano le 3.000 unit�; sono affidati alle cure di un sacerdote ed organizzati in tre centri: Auckland con una chiesa e un presbitero, Wellington e Hamilton.
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Excellent and welcome news! One looks for good work and solid accomplishments from this new Eparchy. We particularly hope that the new Eparchy will have a fruitful, brotherly cooperation with the Apostolic Catholic Church of the East, which also has a significant number of faithful in Australia.
Fr. Serge
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It seems a pity that the Chaldean church could not erect an eparchy on it's own authority.
Nevertheless, it is clearly needed and congratulations with best wishes are in order! I echo the hope of Father Serge that this will lead to strong fraternal ties and cooperation with the Apostolic Church of the East, also present in the land.
Michael
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David, Thank you for the information. Congratulations to and prayers for the faithful of the Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle in Sydney of the Chaldeans and to the Proto-Eparch, Mar Djibrail. Father Serge, It is my understanding that there are close ties between the Chaldean and Assyrian communities in Oceania and that they make much use of the Pastoral Agreement between their Churches to assure the spiritual care of their respective communities there in places where only one or the other has clergy but both have faithful. Michael, Indeed ![[Linked Image]](https://www.byzcath.org/bboard/icons/icon14.gif) Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Shlomo Lkhoolkhoon,
Here is the background on the new Eparch.
Arch-Eparch Djibrail Kassab was born 4 Aug 1938. He was appointed Arch-Eparch of Basra on 24 Oct 1995, and ordained to that post on 5 May 1996. He was transfered to the Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney for the Chaldeans on 21 Oct 2006. (The former information was gotten from from the Hierarchy website)
Poosh BaShlomo Lkhoolkhoon,
Yuhannon
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It will be interesting to see who this Archbishop's Metropolitan will be.
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