Vatican
City, 1 February 2013
(VIS) – The Holy Father has granted the "Ecclesiastica
Communio" requested of him in accordance with canon 76 para. 2
of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches by His Beatitude Louis
Raphael I Sako, canonically elected as Patriarch of Babylon of the
Chaldeans by the Synod of Bishops of that Church, meeting in Rome on
28 January.
The
Synod of Bishops of the Chaldean Church, convoked by the Holy Father
under the presidency of Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the
Congregation for the Oriental Churches, canonically elected the
Archbishop Louis Sako as Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans. The
new Patriarch, previously archbishop of Kirkuk of the Chaldeans,
Iraq, has chosen the name of Louis Raphael I Sako. He succeeds His
Eminence Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly.
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