KERKÜK, DIOCESE of. – Episcopal see of ‘Irāq, dating from the 4th century. The Chaldean Catholic diocese was founded there in 1798. There are 9,000 Catholics in a total population of 300,500 inhabitants; 9 parishes; 11 priests; 20 schools with 1,280 pupils.
BIBL.: Statistics with historical notes on the hierarchy and faithful of the Eastern rite, Vatican City 1932, p. 242; Pontifical Yearbook 1951, p. 215. Guglielmo de Vries