page_title: List of Iraqis
section_title: Religious figures
hierarchical_section_title: List of Iraqis / Religious figures
caption_attribution_description: English: A meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri is held at the prime minister’s Jerusalem office in honor of the New Year. עברית: פגישת ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו עם המקובל הרב כדורי, בלשכתו בירושלים, לרגל ראש השנה.
context_page_description: This list of Iraqis includes people who were born in Iraq and people who are of Iraqi ancestry, who are significantly notable for their life and/or work.
context_section_description: Abo of Tiflis, Patron Saint of Tbilisi, Georgia
  Andraos Abouna (March 23, 1943 – July 27, 2010), the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Hirta and the auxiliary bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon.
  Shimon Agassi (1852–1914) Hakham and Kabbalist
  Asenath Barzani (1590–1670), renowned Kurdish Jewish woman who lived in Mosul, Iraq, daughter of the illustrious Rabbi Samuel Barzani, studied Kabbalah.
  Raphael I Bidawid, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, 1989–2003, Syriac scholar.
  Basile Georges Casmoussa
  Louis Cheikhô (b. 1859 d. 1927) ethnic Assyrian Orientalist and Theologian, considered as a major contributor and pioneer of the rediscovery of the Eastern Rite Christian heritage.
  Paul II Cheikho, the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1958–1989, born on November 19, 1906, in Alqosh
  Emmanuel III Delly, the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and Primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
  Mar Dinkha IV, the current Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.
  Mordechai Eliyahu, former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
  Muhsin al-Hakim
  Yosef Hayyim, (1 September 1835 – 30 August 1909), was a leading hakham, authority on Jewish law (Halakha) and Master Kabbalist. He is best known as author of the work on Halakha Ben Ish Ḥai. Rav Yosef Chaim was born in Baghdad where his father, Hakham Eliyahu Chaim, was the active leader of the Jewish community.
  Abraham Hillel, Chief Rabbi of Baghdad
  Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, Archbishop Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil was born in Bakhdida on November 18, 1938 – dies in Rome, Italy on December 3, 2012). He was the Syriac Catholic titular archbishop of Tagritum and the auxiliary bishop.
  Yitzchak Kaduri, renowned Mizrahi Orthodox Haredi rabbi and kabbalist
  Anastas Al-Karmali, Anastas the Carmelite (b. 5 Aug 1866-d. 1947 Jan 7), Christian priest, most famed for his contributions to the field of Arabic linguistics.
  Mani, prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a gnostic religion.
  Torkom Manoogian, the current Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem serving the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem as Archbishop under the authority of the Catholicos of Armenia and of all Armenians of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
  Yitzhak Nissim (1896–1981), former Sephardic Chief rabbi of Israel
  Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
  Rabban Bar Sauma (c. 1220–1294) also known as Rabban Ṣawma or Rabban Çauma,(Chinese: 拉賓掃務瑪), was a "Nestorian" monk turned diplomat of the Church of the East faith.
  Shah Mustafa, renowned preacher associated with the spread of Islam in Bangladesh
  Yahballaha III, (1245–November 13, 1317), known in earlier years as Rabban Marcos or Markos, was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1281 to 1317. As a young man, he engaged in a remarkable journey, which began as an ascetic monk's pilgrimage from China to Jerusalem, led him to the Patriarch position in Baghdad, and brought him to recommend his former teacher and traveling companion, the monk Rabban Bar Sauma, to become the first Asian ambassador to Europe.
  Ovadia Yosef, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, and the former spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Knesset (Israel's parliament).
caption: Yitzchak Kaduri
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