Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Baghdad
The Patriarchate is based in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows, Baghdad, Iraq.He is assisted by the archbishop of Erbil Shlemon Warduni and the Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad, Basel Yaldo.[4][5][6] Chaldean Catholics are the majority of Assyrians in Iraq, an indigenous people of Upper Mesopotamia.[7][8][9][10][11] In 1552, there was a schism within the Church of the East, caused by discontent among the bishops (metropolitans) over actions of the patriarch Shemʿon VII Ishoʿyahb following the tradition of previous patriarch Shemʿon IV Basidi who made the patriarchal succession hereditary, normally from uncle to nephew.His successor, Joseph II (1696–1713), was officially bestowed with the symbolic title Patriarch of Babylon.