Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko
His Excellency Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Alqosh | |
Al Mekko in 2022 | |
| Diocese | Alqosh |
| Appointed | 14 August 2021 |
| Term ended | 18 June 2025 |
| Predecessor | Mikha Pola Maqdassi |
| Successor | Vacant |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 25 July 2008 |
| Consecration | 22 October 2021 by Louis Raphaël I Sako |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 February 1976 |
| Died | 18 June 2025 (aged 49) Alqosh, Iraq |
Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko (Arabic: ثابت حبيب يوسف ال مكو; 14 February 1976 – 18 June 2025) was an Iraqi Chaldean Catholic hierarch and Bishop of Alqosh.
Biography
Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko was born on 14 February 1976. He graduated from the University of Mosul. He completed his ecclesiastical studies as a seminarian in Rome, where he obtained his theological degree from the Pontifical Urbaniana University and later the licentiate from the Augustinianum Patristic Institute. After returning to Iraq, he received the sacrament of priestly ordination for the Archeparchy of Mosul in his hometown on 25 July 2008.[1]
When the Islamic State invaded the Nineveh Plains in 2014, Al Mekko accompanied the Christian refugees to Erbil. In September 2017, he returned to Karemlasch and worked again as a pastor; he also taught patrology and theology at Babel College.[1]
On 14 August 2021, Pope Francis confirmed the election of Al Mekko as coadjutor bishop of Alqosh by the Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church; his ordination took place on 22 October 2021. On 8 October 2022, he succeeded Mikha Pola Maqdassi as bishop of Alqosh.[2][3]
Al Mekko died in Alqosh on 18 June 2025, at the age of 49.[2][4]
References
- ^ a b "Dalle Chiese Orientali". press.vatican.va. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ a b "Bishop Paul Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko [Catholic-Hierarchy]". catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
- ^ A Candid Conversation with the Bishop of Alqoush
- ^ سمو الامير يعزي بوفاة المطران ثابت حبيب منصور مكو (in Arabic)