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Mar Eshai Shimun with bishops on his first trip back to Iraq, 1970

Place: Iraq
Date: 1970

Formal portrait of Patriarch Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII seated with two elderly bishops, with three younger clergy standing behind, during his 1970 visit to Iraq, his first since exile.

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Mar Shimun Memorial Foundation (marshimun.com), photo gallery

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Mar Eshai Shimun with bishops on his first trip back to Iraq, 1970

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