Rabban Hormizd Monastery

Rabban Hormizd Monastery is an crucial monastery of the Chaldean Catholic Church, based about 640 AD, carved out within the mountains approximately 2 miles from Alqosh, Iraq, 28 miles north of Mosul. It become the respectable house of the patriarchs of the Eliya line of the Church of the East from 1551 to the 18th century, and after the union with Rome inside the early 19th century, it have become a prominent monastery of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

The monastery is named after Rabban Hormizd who founded it in the seventh century. Because of the fame of Rabban Hormizd, the monastery he founded became extraordinarily critical for the Church of the East. It flourished until the 10th century. Already, before the stop of the fifteenth century, the Rabban Hormizd Monastery served as the patriarchal burial web page. Yohannan Sulaqa became monk of the Rabban Hormizd Monastery earlier than his journey to Rome to come to be the primary Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church.