Syriac_Catholic_Patriarchal_Exarchate_of_Bassorah_and_the_Gulf
Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Basra and the Gulf
Eastern Catholic missionary jurisdiction in Iraq
The Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Basra, Iraq and the Gulf is an exarchate (Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the Syriac Catholic Church sui iuris (Antiochian Rite in Syriac language) for southern Iraq and the Gulf states, notably Kuwait. It serves the extremely small Christian minority in Basra however recently the population has slightly increased due to some Christian refugees from the war torn Northern Iraq settling in Basra fleeding conflict with ISIL.
It depends directly on the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, without belonging to his or any other ecclesiastical province.