A decade after being forced to flee Iraq during the rise of Daesh, the former archbishop of Mosul is returning to become head of the country’s Chaldean Catholic Church, bringing a message of faith tested by suffering.
Speaking ahead of his installation in Baghdad on May 29, Patriarch-elect Amel Shamon Nona told the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need that his experience of persecution had shaped his leadership. He was elected Patriarch of Baghdad of the Chaldeans by the Synod of Bishops of the Patriarchal Church of Baghdad of the Chaldeans on April 12, and has taken the name Paul III.
