In office 2005 — 2015 Ordination June 20, 1963 | Name Jacques Ishaq Consecration September 26, 1997 | |
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Archbishop Mar Jacques Ishaq (born February 25, 1938) was a Curial Bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon, Iraq, of the Chaldean Catholic Church. He served as locum tenens of the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans between the retirement of Emmanuel III Delly in December 2012 and the election of Louis Raphael I Sako in January 2013.
Life
Jacques Ishaq was born at Mosul, Kingdom of Iraq on February 25, 1938 and was ordained priest on June 20, 1963. On May 7, 1997, he was appointed Archbishop of Erbil he was consecrated bishop on September 26, 1997, by Patriarch Mar Raphael I Bidawid, Archbishop Andre Sana, and Bishop Emmanuel Delly. He retired on May 4, 1999.
On December 21, 2005, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Nisibis dei Caldei and Curial Bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon.
Upon the retirement of Patriarch Mar Emmanuel III Delly, he served as locum tenens of the Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans until the election of Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako. In 2014 he retired as Curial Bishop of Babylon.