Sargis Yosip

Mar Sargis Yousip is the Assyrian Church of the East's bishop-emeritus of Baghdad, Iraq.[1] Born in 1950 in Baghdad, he was consecrated a bishop at the age of 17 by Mar Yosip Khnanisho in 1967, at the Mar Zaia Cathedral in Baghdad. In 2002 the bishop left for the United States and has since been unable to return to his diocese. He currently resides in exile at Modesto, California.

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  1. ^ "Church Of the East". Assyrian Church of the East. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2011.


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