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Thus the term ''Chaldean Catholic'' is historically, usually and properly taken purely as a [[denominational]], [[doctrinal]] and [[theological]] term which only arose in the late 17th century AD, and not as an [[ethnic]] identity or designation.<ref>a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Travis, Hannibal. Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010, 2007, pp. 237-77, 293–294</ref><ref name="conference.osu.eu">http://conference.osu.eu/globalization/publ/08-bohac.pdf</ref><ref name="conference.osu.eu"/>
The modern Chaldean Catholics are in fact [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]]<ref>Nisan, M. 2002. Minorities in the Middle East: A History of Struggle for Self Expression .Jefferson: McFarland & Company. Jump up ^ http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14225.html</ref> and originated from ancient Chaldean communities living in and indigenous to the north of Iraq/Mesopotamia which was known as Assyria Chaldea from the 25th century BC until the 7th century AD, rather than the long extinct [[Chaldea]]ns/[[Chaldees]], who in actuality were 9th century BC migrants from [[The Levant]], and always resided in the far south east of Mesopotamia, adisappeared from history circa 550 BC. However, despite this, a minority of Chaldean Catholics (particularly in the [[United States]]) have in recent times confused a purely religious term with an ethnic identity, and espoused a separate ethnic identity to their Chaldean brethren, despite there being absolutely no historical, academic, cultural, geographic, archaeological, linguistic or genetic evidence supporting a link to either the Chaldean land or the Chaldean race.
[[Raphael Bidawid]], the then patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church commented on the [[Assyrian name dispute]] in 2003 and clearly differentiated between the name of a church and an ethnicity:
There are five archbishops (resident respectively at [[Basra]], [[Diyarbakır]], [[Kirkuk]], [[Salmas]] and [[Urmia]]) and seven bishops. Eight patriarchal vicars govern the small Chaldean Chaldean communities dispersed throughout Turkey and Iran. The Chaldean clergy, especially the monks of [[Rabban Hormizd Monastery]], have established some missionary stations in the mountain districts dominated by [[The Assyrian Church of the East]]. Three dioceses are in Iran, the others in Turkey.
The liturgical language of the Chaldean Catholic Church is [[Syriac language|Syriac]], a [[Neo-Aramaic languages|Neo-Aramaic]] dialect originating in Assyria Chaldea during the [[Parthian Empire]]. The liturgy of the Chaldean Church is written in the [[Syriac alphabet]].
The literary revival in the early 20th century was mostly due to the [[Lazarist]] [[Paul Bedjan|Pere Bedjan]], an ethnic [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] Chaldean Catholic from northwestern Iran. He popularized the ancient chronicles, the lives of [[Assyria]]n saints and martyrs, and even works of the ancient Chaldean doctors among Chaldeans of all denominations, including Chaldean Catholics, Orthodox Christians and the Chaldean Church.<ref>{{cite web
