The Chaldean Catholic Church

Denomination·Founded 1552 CE·est. ~600,000 worldwide; the Iraqi share has collapsed since 2003 and the diaspora in Michigan, California and Australia now holds much of the church.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → The Eastern Catholic Churches → The Chaldean Catholic Church

Chaldean Catholic Diocese of St. Thomas the Apostle U.S.A.

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Core tenet of The Chaldean Catholic Church⚖ contested within

Chaldean is a name that came with the union.

Rome applied the term Chaldean to the East Syriac Catholics in the sixteenth century; the people it describes are the same people whose relatives in the other church are called Assyrian, speaking the same Neo-Aramaic. Whether Chaldean names a church or a nation is argued inside the church itself, sharply — Patriarch Sako put his own position in writing in 2018 and was contradicted by Chaldeans in Iraq and the diaspora.

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The naming argument is one of the live disputes in Iraqi Christianity and it is not merely academic: Iraqi and Kurdish political representation is allocated by community, so what the community is called affects who speaks for it. Some Chaldeans hold that Chaldean is an ecclesial designation over an Assyrian people; others hold it names a distinct nation with its own history. Patriarch Sako set out a position in a 2018 letter on Chaldean identity and drew immediate public disagreement from Chaldean laity and from Assyrian organisations. The Iraqi state has at various points listed Chaldeans, Assyrians and Syriacs as one group and as three.

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