List of Iraqis - Religious Figures

Religious Figures

• Mani, prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a gnostic religion.
• Abo of Tiflis, Patron Saint of Tbilisi, Georgia
• Muhsin al-Hakim
• Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
• Basile Georges Casmoussa
• Mordechai Eliyahu, former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Yitzchak Kaduri, renowned Mizrahi Orthodox Haredi rabbi and kabbalist
• Yitzhak Nissim (1896–1981), former Sephardic Chief rabbi of Israel
• Ovadia Yosef, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, and the current spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Knesset (Israel's parliament).
• Mar Dinkha IV, the current Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.
• Andraos Abouna (March 23, 1943 – July 27, 2010), the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Hirta and the auxiliary bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon.
• Emmanuel III Delly, the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and Primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
• Paul II Cheikho, the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1958-1989, born on November 19, 1906, in Alqosh
• Raphael I Bidawid, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, 1989-2003, Syriac scholar.
• Asenath Barzani (1590–1670), renowned Kurdish Jewish woman who lived in Mosul, Iraq, daughter of the illustrious Rabbi Samuel Barzani, studied Kabbalah.
• Anastas Al-Karmali, Anastas the Carmelite (b. 5 Aug 1866-d. 1947 Jan 7), Christian priest, most famed for his contributions to the field of Arabic linguistics.
• Louis Cheikhô (b. 1859 d. 1927) thnic Assyrian Orientalist and Theologian, considered as a major contributor and pioneer of the rediscovery of the Eastern Rite Christian heritage.
• Torkom Manoogian, the current Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem serving the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem as Archbishop under the authority of the Catholicos of Armenia and of all Armenians of the Armenian Apostolic Church.