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Mother of God Church was established in Southfield in 1948. [4] The present church building was completed in 1980 in the Byzantine Revival style. [ 5 ] It became a cathedral when the Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle of Detroit was established in 1982.
It was created by Pope John Paul II on January 11, 1982, as the Apostolic Exarchate of United States of America for the Chaldeans, [2] covering the entire United States.. It was elevated to an eparchy, an Eastern-rite Catholic diocese, led by an eparch (bishop) on August 3, 1985.
The Chaldean Catholic Church [a] is an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Patriarchate. Employing in its liturgy the East Syriac Rite in the Syriac dialect of the Aramaic language, it is part of Syriac Christianity .
The Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle is a Chaldean Catholic diocese in Sydney, Australia, and is immediately subject to the Holy See.. The eparchy was created in 2006. [1] ...
The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul (Latin: Archieparchia Mausiliensis Chaldaeorum) is a diocese of the Chaldean Catholic Church, located in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Its followers are ethnic Assyrians and speakers of Neo-Aramaic. The diocese comprises the city of Mosul. The territory is subdivided in 12 parishes.
The East Syriac Rite, or East Syrian Rite (also called the Edessan Rite, Assyrian Rite, Persian Rite, Chaldean Rite, Nestorian Rite, Babylonian Rite or Syro-Oriental Rite), is an Eastern Christian liturgical rite that employs the Divine Liturgy of Saints Addai and Mari and utilizes the East Syriac dialect as its liturgical language.
The Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Baghdad, or simply the Chaldean Patriarchate (Latin: Patriarchatus Chaldaeorum), is the official title held by the primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church. The Patriarchate is based in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows, Baghdad, Iraq. The current patriarch is Louis Raphaël I Sako.
The new church was brick and measured 100 x 50 feet. Transepts were added to the structure in 1851. The church nave as seen from the organ loft. By the late 1860s the church building, not yet 30 years old, was already overcrowded. Planning therefore began for the construction of a new Mother of God Church.