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Chaldean Catholic Church
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Chaldean Catholic Church
The
Chaldean Catholic Church
(,
ʿītha kaldetha qāthuliqetha
), (
Arabic
: الكنيسة الكلدانية
al-Kanīsa al-kaldāniyya
) is an
Eastern
Syriac
particular church
of the
Catholic Church
, under the
Holy See
of the
Catholicos
-
Patriarch of Babylon
, maintaining
full communion
with the
Bishop of Rome
and the rest of the Catholic Church. The Chaldean Catholic Church presently comprises an estimated 500,000 people in northern
Iraq
, and adjacent areas in southeast
Turkey
and northwest
Iran
. There is a vigorous and often heated discussion about the
ethnicity and ethnic self-identification of Chaldean Catholics
.
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