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Alumni Update New Bishops Are Sacred Heart Alumni 24 I MOSAIC The ordination ceremony of Bishop Kalabat was held at Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church in Southfield. He was consecrated by Bishop Louis Raphael I. Sako, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church; Bishop Ibrahim N. Ibrahim, now Bishop Emeritus of the St. Thomas diocese and a great friend of the seminary; and Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron, Archbishop of Detroit. Also in attendance representing Detroit were Cardinal Adam Maida and Cardinal Edmund Szoka. In this current academic year, Sacred Heart is honored to have eleven Chaldean seminarians enrolled at the seminary. The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern-rite church based in Iraq whose liturgy is in the ancient Syriac language, a dialect of the Aramaic language spoken by Jesus. In his public statement of acceptance, Bishop Raica, a priest and former chancellor of the Diocese of Lansing, acknowledged the “providential character” of the Sacred Heart of Jesus throughout his priestly journey. His home parish is Sacred Heart Parish in Munising, Michigan. He received his undergraduate education at Sacred Heart College Seminary Most Rev. Francis Y. Kalabat, the second and served in the earlybishop of the Chaldean Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle. 2000s as superior at the graduate residence of North American Y. Kalabat as the second bishop of College in Rome. It the Chaldean Eparchy (Diocese) of was here Pope Pius IX St. Thomas the Apostle, based in named Margaret Mary Southfield, Michigan; and Most Rev. Alacoque a “Servant Steven J. Raica as the fifth