Archbishop Amel Nona, leader of the Chaldean Diocese of Saint Thomas the Apostle in Australia and New Zealand, has been elected Patriarch of the Chaldean Church. On 12 April, the Synod of Bishops of the Chaldean Church elected him Patriarch at its legal session in Rome.
Archbishop Nona, who chose for himself the name of His Beatitude Patriarch Mar Paul III Nona, was born in 1976 in the village of Alqosh in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq.
He was ordained priest in January 1991 and served in Khornet Alqosh.
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