MOSSUL. - City of ‘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 eighteenth 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. The Italian Dominicans worked at M. from 1750 to 1815. In 1856 the mission was resumed by the French Dominicans, who still work there. The principal works of this mission are: the inter-ritual seminary of S. Giovanni with 12 professors, 8 of whom are Dominicans, and 46 students, 8 of whom are in the major seminary; the secondary school called Mosul College, with 87 pupils; the orphanage, with 30 children; in addition to spiritual assistance to the Catholics employed at Kirkuk by the Irak Petroleum Company. The mission personnel includes 10 Dominican priests, 5 secular priests, 7 Dominican tertiary sisters of S. Caterina, and 20 laypersons.