MOSUL. - A city in 'Irāq, which is the seat of the following ecclesiastical jurisdictions:

1) Patriarchal diocese of the Patriarch of Babylon (v.)

of the Chaldeans, re-established in the 18th century. It has 44,314 faithful, 40 priests, 24 churches and a patriarchal seminary with 6 professors and 25 seminarians.

2) Syro-Catholic diocese since 1790, with 25,000 faithful, 12 parishes, 12 churches, 24 priests and 10 schools.

3) Mission. Italian Dominicans worked in M. from 1750 to 1815. In 1856 the mission was taken up again by French Dominicans, who still work there. The principal works of this mission are: the interritual seminary of St. John with 12 professors, of whom 8 are Dominicans, and 46 students, of whom 8 are in the major seminary; the secondary school called Mosul College, with 87 pupils; the orphanage, with 30 children; besides the spiritual assistance to the Catholics employed at Kirkuk by the Irak Petroleum Company. The staff of the mission comprises 10 Dominican priests, 5 secular priests, 7 Dominican tertiary sisters of St. Catherine and 20 laypersons.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: J. Duval, La mission dominicaine à M., Paris 1889; Annuario Pontificio 1951, p. 279.

Guglielmo de Vries

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