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	Chaldean Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chaldean Catholic Church aka the Chaldean Church of Babylon (Arabic: الكنيسة الكلدانية‎, al-kanīsä 'l-kaldāniyyä) is an Eastern Rite sui juris (autonomous) particular church of the Catholic Church, maintaining full communion with the Pope of Rome.
		A meeting in 1996 between H.H Mar Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church and Mar Raphael I Bidawad of the Chaldean Catholic Church began an effort to bring the two churches into eventual communion.
		The current Patriarch is Mar Emmanuel III Delly, elected in 2003 on the death of Mar Bidawid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chaldean_Catholic_Church (476 words)

	Chaldean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, a modern Aramaic language spoken today by Chaldean Catholics ("Chaldean script" is sometimes used to refer to the Eastern Syriac alphabet)
		Chaldean Dynasty, conventionally known to historians as the 11th dynasty of the Kings of Babylon (6th century BC)
		Chaldean mythology, a generalized term used to refer to all the mythologies of ancient Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chaldean (232 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Chaldean Christians
		The united Chaldeans soon chose as his successor Abdisho', the Metropolitan of Djeziret ibn-Omar (Beit-Zabdai'), who went to Rome (1562) during the pontificate of Pius IV, received there the pallium, and was invited to assist at the Council of Trent.
		Owing to the Carmelite missionaries, who succeeded the Jesuits, nearly 250,000 persevered in Catholic unity, and have remained to the present, loyal to the Holy See and submissive to the Latin hierarchy though they have never ceased their petition to be restored to the obedience of the Chaldean patriarch.
		The Catholic Chaldeans of Malabar look always towards the (Catholic) Chaldean patriarchs, who never tire of urging the extension of their jurisdiction over the distant Malabar churches, historically united with the Church of Persia and its legitimate representatives.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03559a.htm (2889 words)

	David Benjamin Keldani - A bishop converts to Islam?
		Catholics normally refer to themselves as "Catholics," not "Roman Catholics." Although the title "Roman Catholic Church" has been used occasionally in the history of the Church, it first came into prominence with the Anglicans in England after they split off from Rome in the 16th century.
		The rite, called Chaldean after the ancient name for the territory in which it arose, is composed primarily of ethnic Chaldeans (or Assyrians), and the liturgical language is usually Syriac.) The rites are all equal in precedence, and believers all subscribe to the same creed.
		It refers to the various Eastern Catholic rites "uniting" with the Church in Rome, and is regarded as quite pejorative by Eastern Rite Catholics such as Chaldean Catholics.
	www.answering-islam.org.uk /Hoaxes/keldani.html (9512 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: East Syrian Rite
		The Malabar Rite was revised in a Catholic direction by Aleixo de Menezes, Archbishop of Goa, and the revision was authorized by the Synod of Diamper in 1599.
		The second is used by the Chaldeans and Nestorians on the Epiphany and the feasts of St.
		Assemani's arguments (ibid., cclxxxvi-viii) for a belief in Penance as a Sacrament among the ancient Nestorians or for the practice of auricular confession among the Malabar Nestorians are not conclusive.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14413a.htm (4140 words)

	Chaldeans or Catholic Assyrians
		The ancient Chaldeans did not settle in Assyria after the fall of Nineveh at the hands of the Medes and the Babylonians, as the latter were under the rule of the Chaldean kings at the time.
		In the case of the new Chaldean, Armenian and Syrian Catholic Churches the impact was to be seen with the arrival of Catholic missionaries and teachers.
		Chaldean is the name given to those Assyrians who in 1552, led by one of their bishops, accepted the authority of Rome.
	www.nineveh.com /Chaldeans%20or%20Catholic%20Assyrians.html (5840 words)

	Chaldeans - Crystalinks
		Systems: Chaldean references were used by several ancient authors to denote the priests and other persons educated in the classical Babylonian literature, especially in traditions of astronomy and astrology.
		Politics: The Chaldeans made their influence felt in Babylonian politics, and several 9th and 8th century BC Babylonian kings were of Chaldean origins.
		The centers of the Chaldeans is Metropolitan Detroit, MI (where the majority of the Chaldeans are) in addition to San Diego, CA, and a smaller population in Phoenix, AZ and Chicago, IL.
	www.crystalinks.com /chaldeans.html (1515 words)

	Chaldean Catholics demand role in post-Saddam Iraq rule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon, representing the Chaldean Catholics of Iraq, have issued a demand to US civil administrator Paul Bremer that they be included and represented in the country's new governmental institutions.
		The 19 bishops said Chaldeans are the third largest ethnic group in Iraq after Arabs and Kurds, and that their people have made significant contributions to the country, as one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, tracing their roots back to the time of the Apostles.
		The absence of Chaldeans from the drafting commission would be significant as some Chaldeans have expressed concern that a primarily Muslim representation would result in an abridgement of Christians' rights, undermining the country's acclaimed religious plurality and pushing it to become a more radical Islamic state.
	www.cathnews.com /news/309/99.html (326 words)

	Bishops elect new leader of Chaldean Catholics
		A Chaldean-rite Catholic priest who works in a parish in one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighbourhoods has been freed from 27 days of captivity in which he was tortured after "a small sum" was paid for his release.
		Established in 1998 by Elsie Heiss of Sydney's Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, Reconciliation Church was at the time the second of only two Catholic churches in Australia put in Aboriginal hands.
		Bishop Emmanuel-Karim Delly, 76, was elected at a synod of 22 bishops called to Rome by Pope John Paul II to break a deadlock in the choice of a successor to Patriarch Raphael I Bidawid, who died in July after a long illness.
	www.cathnews.com /news/312/38.php (709 words)

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		For the Chaldean Catholics: 'Missale Chaldaicum", containing the Liturgy of the Apostles in Syriac and Epistles and Gospels in Syriac with an Arabic translation, in Carshuni (Propaganda Press fol., Rome, 1767).
		The second is used by the Chaldeans and Nestorians on the Epiphany and the feasts of St. John the Baptist and of the Greek Doctors, both of which occur in Epiphany- tide on the Wednesday of the Fast of the Ninevites, and on Maundy Thursday.
		It is possible that the order or words "and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost and was made man, and was conceived and born of the Virgin Mary", may enshrine a Nestorian idea, but the Chaldean Catholics do not seem to have noticed it, their only alteration being the addition of the Filioque.
	www.ewtn.com /library/HOMELIBR/14413A.TXT (4191 words)

	The Roman Catholic Church Role in Promoting the Chaldean identity for the Catholic Assyrians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Roman Catholic Church by imposing the name Chaldean on the Catholic Assyrians and its policy of defining the Assyrians of the Church of the East as "Nestorian Heretics, cursed and schismatic." succeeded in undermining and obscuring the Assyrian heritage of both churches and their members in northern Mesopotamia and Urmia.
		The assumption that members of the Chaldean church are descendants of the ancient Chaldeans has no basis in reality it is done primarily by that Church clergies to distinguish, separate and segregate their followers from the members of the Church of the East for religious and political reasons.
		While throughout the 16th century the Roman Catholic Church identified both the Chaldean Church and the Church of the East as Assyrian later it used Chaldean as an ethnic term while members of the Church of the East were labeled: "Nestorians and cursed".
	christiansofiraq.com /nationchurchFeb186.html (4048 words)

	Aramaic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		'Chaldee' or 'Chaldean Aramaic' used to be common terms for the Aramaic of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia.
		It is not to be confused with the modern language Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.
		East Syriac communities are usually either Chaldean Catholics or Assyrians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aramaic_language (5652 words)

	Catholic Rites and Churches
		For example, the Ukrainian Catholic Church uses the Byzantine Rite, but this Rite is also found in other Catholic Churches, as well as the Eastern Orthodox Churches not in union with Rome.
		To be Catholic, particular Churches and ritual Churches must be in communion with the Successor of St. Peter, just as the other apostles were in communion with him in establishing Churches in areas which they evangelized.
		It is composed of Catholics from the first people to convert as a nation, the Armenians (N.E. of Turkey), and who returned to Rome at the time of the Crusades.
	www.ewtn.com /expert/answers/rites.htm (2028 words)

	David Benjamin Keldani - A bishop converts to Islam?
		The Chaldean Rite Diocese of Urmiah was established by Rome in 1890.
		"Archbishop of Canterbury's Mission to the Assyrian (Nestorian) Christians" -- The Archbishop of Canterbury is the leader of the Church of England (the Anglican Church), and is, obviously, not a Catholic.
		The Bishop of Salmas from 1894 to 1908 (or 1915) was Isaac Khoudabache, a Chaldean Catholic born in Kosrowa in 1860.
	www.answering-islam.org /Hoaxes/keldani.html (9512 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		The Chaldean rite is one of the five principal rites of Eastern Christianity, together with the Alexandrian rite (Coptic and Ethiopian), Antiochian (Syrian and Maronite), Armenian, and Constantinopolitan, or Byzantine.
		The Chaldean Church, which dates back to the preaching of St. Thomas the Apostle, has 170,000 faithful in the United States (with sees in Detroit and California), 20,000 in Canada, 15,000 in Australia and New Zealand, 60,000 in Europe, 4,000 in Georgia, and several other thousand in the Russian Federation and the former Soviet republics.
		Before the second Gulf war, Auxiliary Bishop Shelmon Warduni of the Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans had already noted that the first Gulf conflict and postwar period were triggering an exodus of Chaldean Catholics from their country.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=38480 (463 words)

	Organizational Model of the Christian Church: Roman Catholics - Chaldean Rite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Chaldean Rite Catholics are Roman Catholics who worship according the liturgy and tradition of the Chaldean Rite of the Oriental Orthodox Church.
		The Chaldean Rite Catholic Churches each have Orthodox counterparts in the Syriac Orthodox and Malankara Orthodox Church.
		The Persians fall into the Chaldean Rite and are found in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Egypt and the United States.
	www.southbear.com /Denominations/Chaldean_Catholics.html (244 words)

	Ukrainian Catholics Have New Leader
		The "Latinophrones" among the Ukrainian Catholics would like an even closer relationship with the Roman Rite, even to the point of establishing a "referendum" on the subject of completely changing their historic Rite to the Latin Rite, as was discussed during a Bishops' Synod in Ukraine a few years back.
		By and large, one could always know whether one was in a Ukrainian Catholic parish of either the "Latin" or "Byzantine" orientations depending on whether the priests commemorated the Ukrainian Catholic Head as a "Patriarch" or not during the Liturgy.
		The challenge of the new Ukrainian Catholic Patriarch is to solidify unity among Ukrainian Catholics, harmonize the consistency of their Rite and promote good relations among all Ukrainian Catholics and Orthodox within the framework of common traditions and mutual national-cultural ties.
	www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/articles/alex_roman/newleader.htm (1266 words)

	IRAQ: The Chaldean Catholics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In our discussion of the Iraq's Chaldean Catholics the question arose of their relations with Rome.
		Presumably he fled after the US started its campaign against Iraq, since he died in Beirut.The funeral service was held in the Chaldean cathedral there.
		Chaldean Catholics are the largest Christian community in Iraq.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Iraq/iraq_thechaldeancatholics71303.html (137 words)

	Chaldean Catholic Church
		Through this arrangement, the Chaldean branch is allowed to retain its customs and rites, even when these differ from the traditions of the Roman church.
		The Chaldeans still embrace their East Syrian liturgy of Addai and Mari, performing it in Syriac (a language close to Aramaic, the language of Jesus).
		The Catholic branch comes to be called Chaldean, or Chaldean Catholic, or East Syriac.
	i-cias.com /e.o/chaldean.htm (303 words)

	Local Iraqi Catholics say security for Christians in Iraq is paramount \| The-Tidings.com
		The establishment of security in Iraq is uppermost in the minds of local Iraqi Chaldean Catholics who hope and pray for peace in their native country.
		Father Michael Bazzi, 66, pastor of St. Peter Chaldean Cathedral in San Diego, said church officials are concerned that the new Iraqi government did not identify Chaldeans as one of the official minorities in Iraq.
		According to Father Bazzi, the Chaldeans in Iraq, led by eight bishops and the Patriarch of Babylon, are lobbying to regain schools that had been confiscated under Hussein's rule.
	www.the-tidings.com /2004/0723/iraq.htm (734 words)

	Chaldeans :: Leader of Iraq's Chaldean Catholics Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		VATICAN CITY - Patriarch Raphael I Bidawid, spiritual leader of Iraq's Chaldean Catholics and an outspoken opponent of the United Nations sanctions against his country, has died after a long illness.
		Chaldean Catholics are the largest Christian community in Iraq, but the numbers have been steadily shrinking, mainly because of economic hardships.
		He was ordained in 1944 and elevated to bishop in 1957 at the age of 35 - the youngest in the world at the time, according to a Fides biography.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /archives/00003695.html (447 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Iraqi Christians welcome their own
		...The refugees, Chaldean Catholics, were driven from their homes by economic sanctions imposed against Iraq since the Gulf War, Michael Bazzi, pastor of St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Church in El Cajon, Calif., told Religion Today.
		About 1,700 Chaldean Catholics celebrated the arrival of a number of refugees, who "wept and shook" with joy to hear hymns and the Scriptures in their language for the first time in years, Bazzi said.
		Chaldeans, the majority Christian community in Iraq, follow the authority of the Vatican but have different worship services.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/religiontoday/523938.html (816 words)

	TIME.com: Chaldean Catholics -- Mar. 23, 1936 -- Page 1
		One of the chief differences between the Chaldean Rite and the Latin Rite is that Chaldeans baptize by immersion.
		Chaldean Francis Thomay was born in Constantinople, educated by Lazarists and Jesuits.
		As a result of the massacres and starvation in the Near East, the Chaldean Catholic Church lost six archbishops, 150 priests, almost 100,000 of the faithful.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,930856,00.html (700 words)

	The Iraqi Church Cries Out - February 2000 Issue of St. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online
		The Chaldean Church, which is also called East Syrian, includes 10 dioceses in Iraq, three in Iran and one each in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Turkey and the United States.
		The hearts of Chaldean Catholics everywhere were lightened when the arrival of Pope John Paul II in Iraq seemed imminent last December.
		I now know that Chaldean Catholics are an Eastern Church, reunited with the Roman Catholic Church in 1551 after a split in 431 A.D. over the teaching of Nestorius that Christ had two natures.
	www.americancatholic.org /messenger/Feb2000/feature2.asp (3041 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Showdown with Iraq -- Worlds apart on Chaldean crisis
		His brother, also a Chaldean Catholic, was executed in the same prison in 1987.
		While Chaldean advocates, human rights groups and immigration lawyers in the United States argue that Chaldean Catholics are targets of religious persecution in Iraq, many Chaldeans in semi-autonomous northern Iraq paint a different picture.
		Elias was careful to note that many Chaldeans and other Iraqi Christians have been jailed and killed for their political opposition to Hussein.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20030312-9999_1n12chaldean.html (1190 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Chaldean Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Andreos Abouna of Baghdad said that before the invasion there were about 1.2 million Christians in the predominantly Shiite Muslim state.
		To assess the extent of the reform, ZENIT interviewed Monsignor Petrus Yousif, professor of Syro-Chaldean patrology and Chaldean liturgy at the Pontifical Oriental Institute and the Catholic Institute of Paris.
		It was the language of the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Hebrews and Syrians.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=chaldean (3348 words)

	For Iraqi Christians, A Shadow of Insecurity (washingtonpost.com)
		Most Iraqi Christians are Chaldeans, Eastern-rite Catholics whose church is autonomous from Rome, with its own liturgy and leadership, but recognizes the authority of the pope.
		Chaldeans trace their lineage to the Babylonian-Mesopotamian nation of Chaldees, where the patriarch Abraham was born.
		A The Roman Catholic (Latin) Church in Iraq began as a missionary church.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A56359-2004Jul16.html (791 words)

	Adherents.com
		The Negroes in the Roman Catholic Church are the sixth largest Negro church group.
		"Chaldean Catholics: A branch of the Nestorian church.
		Catholics of the patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldees with 70,000 members and of Malabar with 532,000 also follow variants of this rite.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_134.html (2700 words)

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