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Ramzi Garmou (born in Zakho, Iraq on 5 February 1945), is the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Tehran on the Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tehran.
Garmou was consecrated a priest on 13 January 1977 and joined the Eparchy of Tehran. On 5 May 1995, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as co-adjutor bishop of Tehran. His episcopal ordination was on the hands of The Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon Raphael I Bidawid aided by Archbishop of Tehran, Youhannan Semaan Issayi and by the Archbishop of Urmia Thomas Meram on 25 February 1996.
On 7 February 1999, Ramzi Garmou succeeded Youhannan Semaan Issayi as Chaldean Archbishop of Tehran upon the latter's death.
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