Bawai Soro
Bawai Soro is an Eparch of the Chaldean Catholic Church for the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto.Biography
Soro was baptized in the Assyrian Church of the East. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1982 and to the episcopate in 1984. He served the Assyrian eparchy of the Western United States, and subsequently the eparchy of California. Soro was suspended in November of 2005 for alleged "rebellion of dogma," after attempting to usurp the diocese by incorporating several Churches under his name, and barring Church leadership from the properties. In 2007, after numerous lawsuits, Soro was ordered by the Supreme Court of California to surrender all Church property, and was formally laicized and defrocked by the Assyrian Holy Synod in 2008.
After pursuing studies first at the Catholic University of America in Washington, and later at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in Rome, where he obtained a doctorate, Bishop Mar Bawai Soro was received into communion with the Chaldean Catholic Church in May 2008.
Pope Francis controversially appointed Soro auxiliary eparch for the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego on January 11, 2014. On October 31, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Soro as eparch of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto. He was installed on November 29, 2017.Episcopal succession
