Yousif Thomas Mirkis

Yousif Thomas Mirkis (2015)

Yousif Thomas Mirkis (21 June 1949 –) is an Iraqi prelate of the Chaldean Catholic Church who serves as the Archbishop of the Archeparchy of Kirkuk-Sulaimaniya.

Quotes

• We do not need your guilt feelings. We need your friendship.
  • The Plight of Iraqi Christians (February 21, 2005)

• Everyone wants to get his piece of cake, and small sectarian states always fighting with their neighbors will be created, and this is against our own good, and against our future.
  • The Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk: unrealistic and wrong to dream of an autonomous enclave for Christians in the Nineveh Plain (27 November 2014) Fides News Agency