The Death of the Chaldean Bishop Rabban Al-Qas

28th August 2023

He was born in Koumani  (northern Iraq) on March 18, 1949. In 1961, he enrolled at Saint John Seminary in Mosul. He was ordained priest on May 6, 1973 by Bishop Emmanuel Dadi. He served the Dioceses of Koumani, Amadiya, Ineshki, Benaatha and Baderish. On February 1, 2002, Patriarch Rafael I Bidawid ordained him a Bishop for Amadiya. On January 22, 2005 he was appointed as a caretaker for the Episcope of Irbil. In 2010, he returned to the Dioceses of Zakho and three years later he was appointed as a Bishop for Zakho and Amadiya. Bishop Rabban opened an international school in Duhok and at the same year he earned a peace award for school activity, education and co-existence from the city of Aachen (Germany).In 2013, he opened Koumani and Himzek churches and he built several halls in Koumani, Mangesh, Aradin, Hirmash and Marithallaha. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Cambridge College of Technology in International law on June 2015.

AB Habib Jajou