New bishop named for US Chaldean eparchy [CNA]

[CNA_News]

Detroit, Mich., May 5, 2014 / 03:51 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has named a Chaldean Catholic priest in Michigan as the next bishop of the Detroit-based Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle.

Father Frank Kalabat, a priest born in Kuwait in 1970, will succeed the retiring Bishop Ibrahim Namo Ibrahim.

Bishop-designate Kalabat presently heads the St. Thomas Chaldean Catholic Parish in West Bloomfield, Mich. He also directs the Eparchial Centre for Vocations. He previously served as the deputy priest of Mother of God Church in Southfield, Mich.

He was ordained a priest in 1995.

The Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle has about 105,000 Catholics, 22 priests and 150 permanent deacons.

Pope Francis has also appointed a new apostolic administrator of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Mar Addai, based in Toronto, Canada. Fr. Daoud Baffro will administer the eparchy following the retirement of Bishop Hanna Zora.

The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern-rite Catholic Church in full communion with Rome and headquartered in Baghdad. Many Chaldean Catholics in the U.S. are immigrants from the Middle East.

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[ronyodish]

Congrats Fr. Frank!



May the Lord our God bless this faithful priest and new shepherd of our Church!

Rony

 

[izzydizzydo]

Chaldeans are some our earliest Catholic Christians. They are most often from Iraq. Though I am a Republican I was ashamed that George Bush offered them mo protection at all yet did everyhing to protect the Iraqi Muslims. Before the war they lived in peace with the Muslims but after the war began the Muslims treated them badly. A great number of Chaldeans left Iraq.

Just today I learned that this new government that we Americans made possible this Muslim government is charging all non-Muslims a jizya (poll) tax if they stay in the country without converting to Islam. I don’t know what the amount is but in the past the tax was 50%. Can you imagine how that effects a group of poor disenfranchised people who dont have the means to leave the country!

Please pray for the Chaldeans.

God peace be with you,

Izzydizzydo

 

[izzydizzydo]

Chaldeans are some our earliest Catholic Christians. They are most often from Iraq. Though I am a Republican I was ashamed that George Bush offered them mo protection at all yet did everyhing to protect the Iraqi Muslims. Before the war they lived in peace with the Muslims but after the war began the Muslims treated them badly. A great number of Chaldeans left Iraq.

Just today I learned that this new government that we Americans made possible this Muslim government is charging all non-Muslims a jizya (poll) tax if they stay in the country without converting to Islam. I don’t know what the amount is but in the past the tax was 50%. Can you imagine how that effects a group of poor disenfranchised people who dont have the means to leave the country!

Please pray for the Chaldeans.

God peace be with you,

Izzydizzydo