dirtnapp / died in 2025 / is athanase matti shaba matoka alive or dead?
Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka
Iraqi Syriac Catholic archbishop
browse: Catholic priests, Catholic bishops
dead
- born
- 1930
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 94
- known for
- archbishop, Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
1930 β 2025
tell everyone
who athanase matti shaba matoka is
Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka was an Iraqi Syriac Catholic hierarch, who served as the Archbishop of the Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad from 1983 until his retirement in 2010. He was a significant figure during the period of heightened persecution of Christians in Iraq following the 2003 invasion.
where this comes from
wikidata records a date of death for Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka in 2025, which is how we know. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so itβs current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
read wikipedia βwikidata record (Q754750) βsomething wrong? β
others who died in 2025

Theodore Edgar McCarrick
deadAmerican cardinal
1930 β 2025

Estanislao Esteban Karlic
deadArgentine Catholic cardinal and archbishop
1926 β 2025
.jpg?width=1200)
Alfred Gonti Pius Datubara
dead20th and 21st-century Indonesian Catholic bishop
1934 β 2025

RenΓ© Dupont
deadFrench Roman Catholic prelate
1929 β 2025
Antonio Baseotto
deadArgentinian Catholic bishop
1932 β 2025
Kamal Hanna Bathish
deadIsraeli-Arab Roman Catholic bishop
1931 β 2025