Part 47 Patriarch Youssef Ghanima 1947 – 1958 Patriarch Boulos Cheikho 1958 – 1989

Our father, Yacoub, is mentioned in the book “Biographies of the Patriarchs of the Church of the East” by Patriarch Louis Sako, on page 192 and following. It says that Iskandar, who is (Youssef, was born on January 29, 1881 in Mosul to a conservative Christian family from the Ghanima family. His father is Abdul Ahad and his mother is Lulu.) End of quote. In a book about the manuscript of the Kirkuk Archdiocese by Father Dr. Boutros Haddad, it is…