The Chaldean Catholic Territory Dependent on(or Patriarchal Dependency of) the Patriarch of Jerusalem is a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Chaldean Catholic Church sui iuris (Eastern Catholic : Chaldean Rite, Syriac language) covering the Holy land (Palestine and Israel).
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As Territory Dependent on the Patriarch, it is immediately subject to the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon (actually in Baghdad, Iraq), without being part of his or any other ecclesiastical province. It isn't entitled to a (Titular) Bishop as Ordinary, the incumbents use the style Protosyncellus (normally an official in an episcopal curia).
History
Established in 1997 as Territory Dependent on the Patriarch on territory previously without proper Ordinary for the particular church, which was previously governed as the Patriarchal Vicariate of Jerusalem within the Patriarch's own archeparchy, whose last incumbent was briefly [Patriarchal Exarch]] before being appointed the first Protosyncellos.
Patriarchal Vicars of Jerusalem
(all Chaldean Rite)
Ordinaries
(all Chaldean Rite)