Yohanna Petros Mouche


Yohanna Petros Mouche is an Iraqi Syriac Catholic prelate. He serves as the Archbishop of Mosul.

Early life

Yohanna Petros Mouche was born on November 23, 1943 in Bakhdida, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. He was ordained as a priest on June 6, 1968.

Career

Mouche was elected as the Archbishop of Mosul in 2011.
In August 2011, he blamed the bombing of the Holy Family Church in Kirkuk on government infighting, concluding that officials were too busy arguing among themselves to keep the country safe.
In August 2014, he visited Christian refugees in Soran, Kurdistan