Who will be Baghdad’s next patriarch?

Who will be Baghdad’s next patriarch?

The bishops of the Chaldean Catholic Church will begin a meeting in Rome on Thursday, with the aim of electing the next patriarch of their Eastern Catholic Church.Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows in Baghdad, Iraq. Credit: Christian World/wikimedia CC BY SA 2.0But while the Chaldean episcopate gathers to elect a leader at a time of acute crisis for their Church, predicting the outcome of their meeting requires a longer look into the history and c…