Enciclopedia Cattolica

ZAKU E ZAKHO DEI CALDEI, DIOCESI DI

Zaku and Zakho of the Chaldeans, Diocese of

Volume XII · p. 1088 · 1954

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

ZAKU and ZAKHO of the CHALDEANS, DIOCESE OF. — In Iraq. The name and title of the diocese are recent.

It originated in 1850 from the division of the diocese of Amadia into three: Amadia, Akra, and Z. In the territory of the diocese of Z., union with the Catholic Church spread toward the end of the 18th century. Today it has 12,000 faithful among 70,000 inhabitants, mostly Kurds and Muslims; 20 parishes, 20 priests, 13 schools with 550 pupils.

Bibl.: J. Tinkdji, L'Egl. chaldéenne cath. autrefois et aujourd'hui, in A. Battandier, Ann. Pontif. cath., 1914, Paris 1914, pp. 518-20; Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 461.