Sargis Yosip

Mar Sargis Yousip, is the Assyrian Church of the East's Bishop of Baghdad, Iraq. Born in 1950 in Baghdad, he was consecrated a bishop at the age of 17 by Mar Yosip Khnanisho on 2 March 1967 at the Mar Zaia Cathedral in Baghdad. In 2002 the bishop left for the United States and has since been unable to return to his diocese. He currently resides in exile at Modesto, California.