Word: chaldean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assembled in St. Joseph's for a patriotic thanksgiving service were Iraqi prelates of the Chaldean, Syrian, Armenian and Greek Catholic churches in dazzling crimson, black and gold vestments. The crowded congregation was almost equally divided between Christians and Moslems; there was even one rabbi. In the Middle East, tense home of three great religions that command the faith of 1.3 billion people around the world, it was a rare moment. After listening to hymns, Kassem rose and said: "Brothers ... I call on each of you, of all communities and sects composing this noble Iraqi people, to lay aside...
...whom Pope Benedict XIV established a separate patriarchical see in 1742. This group is one of nine Eastern churches which differ in liturgy from Latin rite Catholics but are in communion with Rome in all matters of faith and morals. The other Eastern rites: Byzantine, Alexandrian, Antiochian, Chaldean...