Toma Audo


Mar Toma Audo, also spelled Thomas Audo was Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

Life

He was born on October 11, 1855 in Alqosh to ethnic Assyrian parents. His uncle Joseph Audo who was the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church took him to Rome to study. After completing his study he was ordained priest in 1880 and consecrated bishop of Urmia on September 4, 1892 until his assassination during the Assyrian Genocide on July 27, 1918.

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