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Adam Lucente

Adam Lucente

Jul 22, 2023

Iraq Sako — Louis Raphael Sako, the patriarch of the Chaldean Church in Iraq, leads Mass at the Sacred Heart Chaldean church on Jan. 20, 2018, in the city of Tal Kaif, north of Mosul. — AHMAD MUWAFAQ/AFP via Getty Images

Louis Raphael I Sako of Iraq poses as he attends the courtesy visit of relatives following a consistory for the creation of new cardinals in the Apostolic Palace at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on June 28, 2018.

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Pope Benedict XVI (R) meets in a private audience with Louis Raphael I Sako (L), the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and the Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, in Vatican February 4, 2013 in this picture provided by Osservatore Romano.
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Pope Francis (L) talks with Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako during a meeting with priests, seminarists, and pastoral care agents at the Church of the Assumption in Tbilisi, Georgia October 1, 2016. REUTERS/Luca Zennaro/Pool - D1BEUEMDBYAA

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