Jibrail Kassab

Jibrail Kassab (born 4 August 1938) is an Iraqi Chaldean Catholic hierarch who served as Chaldean Eparch of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney from 2006 to 2015.

Biography Kassab was born in Tel Keppe, Iraq, to an Assyrian family. He was ordained a priest on 19 January 1961. Following 35 years of service in the priesthood, he was elevated to the episcopate by the then Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Mar Raphael I Bidawid. Upon his installation, his first post was Archeparc of Basra.

Following the difficult plight of Iraq's Chaldean Christians during the Iraq War, Pope Benedict XVI transferred Kassab to a safer area and created the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney to cover all of Australia and New Zealand; he installed Kassab as its eparch in 2006.