Jibrail Kassab

Djibrail Kassab (* August 4, 1938 in Telkef ) is Archbishop ad personam of St. Thomas the Apostle in Sydney.

Life

Djibrail Kassab received on 19 January 1961 and was ordained priest incardinated in the clergy of the Archdiocese of Baghdad. Pope John Paul II appointed him on 24 October 1995 as Archbishop of Basra.

He received his episcopal consecration the Patriarch of Babylon and Archbishop of Baghdad, His Beatitude Raphael I Bidawid, on 5 May of the next year; Co-consecrators were George F. Garmou, Archbishop of Mosul, Karim Delly Geries Mourad, Auxiliary Bishop of Babylon, Hanna Markho, Archbishop of Arbil, and Ibrahim Namo Ibrahim, Bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit.

On 21 October 2006 he was appointed Archbishop ad personam of St. Thomas the Apostle in Sydney.