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A patriarchate in transition.
Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako led the church from January 2013 and resigned on 9 March 2026, having said for years that he intended to go at seventy-five. The synod meeting in Rome elected Amel Shamon Nona on 12 April 2026; he took the name Paul III and was enthroned in Baghdad on 30 May.
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