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George Garmo
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Mar George Garmo (8 December 1921 – 9 September 1999) was the Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul (Mausiliensis Chaldaeorum) in Iraq from 14 September 1980 until his death on 9 September 1999.
He was born Georges Francis Garmo in 1921 in Tel Keppe near Mosul, Iraq to a Chaldean Catholic Assyrian family. He entered the Chaldean Patriarchal Seminary in 1934. In 1939, he went to Rome to further his studies. He was ordained a priest there on his 24th birthday, 8 December 1945. He received a PhD in Divinity and a master's degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome.
During this time there was a scarcity of educated Catholic priests in Iraq. As Rev. Garmo was studying to receive a Ph.D in philosophy, he was requested by the Patriarchate to return to Iraq to minister to the growing Chaldean Patriarchal Seminary, which at the time lacked an extensive Theology and Philosophy department and staff. Rev. Garmo returned to Iraq in the summer of 1947, where he would spearhead the new and improved Philosophy and Theological studies at Chaldean Patriarchal Seminary the following year.
Following his first year as a teacher, in 1949 he was elevated to rector of the Seminary, in which capacity he served until September 1960. During his tenure as Seminary Rector, Garmo was assisted by Patriarch Mar Raphael Bidawid before his elevation to the Patriarchate.
Patriarch Mar Paul II Cheikho appointed Garmo as pastor of Mother of God Parish in Southfield, Michigan.
In 1964, while serving as pastor of Mother of God Church, Garmo began fundraising drives, with the help of the Parishioners and Parish council he was able to purchase a plot of land in Southfield on Telegraph Road. After the completion of the church, he continued fundraising with the members of the Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan (CIAAM) to raise funds to transfer ownership of of the church's property to the CIAAM to build a Chaldean social club, which would become Southfield Manor. Mother of God Cathedral still stands on this property today.
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