Chaldean Catholics in Canada

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January 24, 2018

Chaldean Bishop Biwai Soro is on a new world mission

Bishop Biwai Soro is the new leader of Canada's Chaldean Catholic community, which has grown in recent years because of the refugee Christians fleeing ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

Chaldean Bishop Biwai Soro had been a priest and pastor for more than a decade when he stumbled on a simpler, more basic understanding of priesthood.

Published in Canada

November 29, 2017

Bishop Biwai Soro welcomed as head of Canada’s Chaldean Catholics

“It is my dream that the Chaldeans in North America become a solid unit,” Bishop Biwai Soro said to cheers and a standing ovation from an overflowing church on Nov. 29. The service was presided over by the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch of Babylon Rafaël Louis Sako.

Canada’s newest bishop has taken his seat at the Good Shepherd Chaldean Cathedral in Toronto and declared his dream for Canada’s Iraqi Catholics.

Published in Canada