George Garmo

Georges F. Garmou ( born December 8, 1921 in Tel Keppe in Mosul Iraq; † 9 September 1999) was archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic archeparchy Mosul.

Life

Georges Garmou studied from 1934 at the Seminary of the Chaldeans in Baghdad and from 1939 in Rome, where he was ordained priest and on 8 December 1945. He completed his doctoral studies at the Pontifical Urban University. In 1949 he became rector of the seminary of the Chaldeans. In 1964 he became pastor of the parish Mother of God Parish in Southfield, Michigan.

Pope John Paul II appointed him in 1980 as Archbishop of Mosul archeparchy. The episcopal consecration on September 14, 1980 He received his Paul Cheikho, the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldean Catholic Church; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Beirut, Raphael I Bidawid, and the Bishop of Alquoch, Abdul- Ahad Sana.

He died of a cancerous condition.