Yohanna Petros Mouche (born November 23, 1943) is an Iraqi Syriac Catholic prelate. He serves as the Archbishop of Mosul.

Early life

Yohanna Petros Mouche was born on November 23, 1943 in Bakhdida, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. He was ordained as a priest on June 6, 1968.

Yohanna Petros Mouche

Career

Mouche was elected as the Archbishop of Mosul in 2011.

Yohanna Petros Mouche

In August 2011, he blamed the bombing of the Holy Family Church in Kirkuk on government infighting, concluding that officials were too busy arguing among themselves to keep the country safe.

Yohanna Petros Mouche

In August 2014, he visited Christian refugees in Soran, Kurdistan

References

Living people

1943 births

People from Bakhdida

Iraqi Eastern Catholics

Syriac Catholic clergy

Iraqi archbishops

20th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops

21st-century Eastern Catholic archbishops