Andraos Abouna

Andreas Abouna, also Andraos Abouna, ( born March 23, 1943 in Bedare in Zakho, Iraq, † July 27, 2010 in Arbil, Iraq) was auxiliary bishop in the Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans.

Life

Andreas Abouna ( d' Beth Abuna ) occurred with 14 years in the Seminary of St. Peter in Mosul and received on June 5, 1966, ordained priest in the Chaldean rite. He was pastor since 1967 in the diocese of Basra in southern Iraq. Since 1971 he was pastor of Saint Joseph the Worker 's Church in Baghdad. 1989 Abouna personal secretary to the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Baghdad, Raphael I Bidawid. From 1991 to 2002 Abouna was responsible for the Chaldean and Syrian Catholic Mission in England in the London Borough of Ealing.

Pope John Paul II appointed him in 2002 as Titular Bishop of Zenobia and appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad, one united with the Roman Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholic archdiocese headquartered in Baghdad, Iraq. The episcopal consecration on January 6, 2003 in Rome gave him Pope John Paul II himself; Co-consecrators were the Curia Archbishops Leonardo Sandri and Antonio Maria Vegliò.

Andreas Abouna died after a long illness of complications from kidney failure. He was. Headed by Emmanuel III Delly, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldean Catholic Church, at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Ankawa, near Arbil, buried.