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Archbishop Imad Khoshaba Gargees

Archbishop of Teheran (Chaldean)

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Born
Apr 4, 1978 Komane, Iraq, South Africa
Nationality
Iran
Ordained priest
Jun 8, 2004 Komane, Iraq
Ordained bishop
Nov 10, 2023 Dohuk, Iraq
Appointed
Nov 10, 2023
Principal consecrator
Louis Raphaël I Sako
Co-consecrators
Ramzi Garmou Thomas Meram

Msgr. Imad Khoshaba Gargees was born on 4 April 1978 in Komane-Amadiyah-Duhok in the region of Iraqi Kurdistan. He studied philosophy and theology at Babel College in Baghdad (1997-2004). On 8 June 2004 he received priestly ordination in Komane, and was ascribed to the eparchy of Duhok of the Chaldeans. From 2004 from 2010 he was secretary to the bishop and at the same time parish priest Amadiyah. He then went to Rome, where he obtained a licentiate and doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Oriental Institute. From 2016 to 2022 he held the role of protosyncellus and parish priest of the Mar Ith Alaha Cathedral in Duhok. In 2016 he was appointed director of the Institute of Catechesis in Duhok. Since 2022 he has been parish priest in Mangesh.