Talk:Raphael I Bidawid

BIDAWID WAS ASSYRIAN

In an interview with Bidawid, published in 2003, he commented on the Assyrian name dispute and declared his ethnic point of view:

“I personally think that these different names serve to add confusion. The original name of our Church was the ‘Church of the East’ ... When a portion of the Church of the East became Catholic, the name given was ‘Chaldean’ based on the Magi kings who came from the land of the Chaldean, to Bethlehem. The name ‘Chaldean’ does not represent an ethnicity... We have to separate what is ethnicity and what is religion... I myself, my sect is Chaldean, but ethnically, I am Assyrian.”

The term "Chaldean" is indeed simply a THEOLOGICAL TERM and not an ethnic one, Chaldean Catholica are exactly the same people ethnically as the Assyrians. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.106.116.120 (talk) 00:48, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Unsourced quote. A ntv (talk) 08:32, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

• We do need a better source for the assertion that he's Assyrian. I would tag it as insufficiently sourced, but I'm having technical issues with editing this page, probably due to some of the characters used not playing nicely with Chrome. (My rollback button is still working, and so long as a blocked user is reverting the page, I reserve the right to take administrative action and roll back the blocked user's edits.) —C.Fred (talk) 15:06, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

impossible, the church leader declare they are Syriac Arameans http://betharam.com/patriarch-emmanuel-iii-delly-of-chaldean-church-we-are-arameans/ http://betharam.com/patriarch-louis-raphael-i-sako-we-are-all-arameans/