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Bishop Barnaba Yousif Benham Habash

Bishop of Our Lady of Deliverance in the United States (Syrian)

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Born
Jun 1, 1951 Bakhdida, Al-Hamdaniya District, Iraq
Nationality
Iraq
Ordained priest
Aug 31, 1975 Qaraqosh, Iraq
Ordained bishop
Jun 11, 2010 Qaraqosh, Iraq
Appointed
Jul 31, 2010
Principal consecrator
Ignace Joseph III (Ephrem) Younan
Co-consecrators
Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni

Yousif Habash was born on June 1, 1951, in Qaraqosh, Iraq—within the Archeparchy of Mosul—into a Syriac-Catholic family. He entered the Dominican Fathers' Saint John Seminary in Mosul in 1965, later transferring to the Charfet Seminary in Lebanon in 1972. He completed his philosophical and theological studies at the Pontifical University of the Holy Spirit (USEK) in Kaslik, Lebanon. He was ordained a priest on August 31, 1975, and exercised his parish ministry in Qaraqosh. In 1983, he was appointed assistant pastor and subsequently pastor of the Sacred Heart (Sacré Cœur) parish in Basra, in southern Iraq. In 1994, he was sent to the United States to serve the pastoral needs of Syriac-Catholic the faithful at the Mission of Our Lady of Deliverance in Newark, New Jersey, and later in Chicago, Illinois; from 2001, he served as pastor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Syriac-Catholic Parish in Los Angeles, California. He speaks Syriac, Arabic, French, English, and Hebrew.