Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Hasakah-Nisibis
Eastern Catholic archeparchy in Syria
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The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Hasakah-Nisibi(s) or of Al Hasakeh-Nisibi(s) (in French Hassaké–Nisibi) (informally Hasakah–Nisibi(s) of the Syriacs) is a non-metropolitan archeparchy (Eastern Catholic archdiocese) of the Syriac Catholic Church (sui iuris, Syro-Antiochian Rite in Syriac language) in Syria.
It is directly dependent on the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches), not part of any ecclesiastical province.
The cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Hasakah is its archiepiscopal see.
History
Established on 17 July 1957 as Eparchy of Hasakah (Diocese), on Syriac territory previously without proper Ordinary for the particular church sui iuris.
Promoted on 3 December 1964 as Archdiocese of Hasakah–Nisibi(s) (Archdiocese), adopting as honorary second title Nisibi(s), a grand old, suppressed Metropolitan see which has titular archbishopric successor sees in four other Catholic rites but never was a Syriac Catholic diocese.
Eparchial hierarchs
- Eparch of Hasakah
- Jean Karroum (1959.02.21 – 1964.12.03 see below)
- Archeparchs of Hasakah
- Jean Karroum (see above 1964.12.03 – death 1967.03.22)
- Jacques Michel Djarwé (1967.07.18 – death 1981.09.08)
- Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri (1982.03.18 – retired 1996.06.28)
- Jacques Behnan Hindo (1996.06.29 – retired 2019.07.12)
- Denys Antoine Chahda, Patriarchal Administrator (2019.07.12 – 2019.10.17)[1]
- Yacoub Joseph Chami, Patriarchal Administrator (2019.10.31 – 2022.05.12)
- Yacoub Joseph Chami (since 2022.05.12)