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==Catholicoi and Patriarchs of Babylon for the Chaldeans==
===The Shimun line===
In 1553, Mar Yohannan Sulaqa, willing to separate from the [[List of Patriarchs of the Church of the East|Church of the East]]'s [[episcopal see|Patriarchal See]] of [[Alqosh]], an Assyrian a Chaldean town in the [[Assyrian homeland]] in northern Iraq, went to Rome asking for his appointment as Patriarch. He was consecrated in [[St. Peter's Basilica]] on 9 April 1553.
* 90 [[Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa]] (1553–1555) — fixed the See in [[Amid]]
* 95 [[Shimun XI Eshuyow]] (1638–1656)
* 96 [[Shimun XII Yoalaha]] (1656–1662)
* 97 [[Shimun XIII Dinkha]] (1662–1692) — moved the See in [[Qochanis]], formally broke [[full communion]] with Rome in 1692, moved back to the Assyrian churchChurch of the East, continued to be Patriarch of the [[Assyrian Church of the East]] until c. 1700, the Shimun line of successors continued in the Assyrian Church of the East
===The Josephite line of Amid===
The Catholic Patriarchs based in [[Amid]], now [[Diyarbakır]] in southeastern [[Turkey]], began with Joseph I who in 1681 separated from the Assyrian Patriarchal See of Alqosh entering into full communion with Rome.
* 98 [[Joseph I (Chaldean Patriarch)|Joseph I]] (1681–1696)
===The Alqosh/Mosul line===
The patriarchal See of [[Alqosh]], also known during the 17th and 18th centuries as Eliya line, was the oldest and largest patriarchal See of the Assyrian Church of the East, the only one existing patriarchal line before the 1553 split, and traces itself back from [[Thomas (Apostle)|St. Thomas]] in the 1st century. In 1610, Mar Eliyya VIII (1591–1617), Patriarch of the See of Alqosh, entered communion with the Catholic Church. Eliyya VIII, however died in 1617, and his successor quickly repudiated the union, returning to the Assyrian churchChurch of the East.
In 1778, with the death of Eliya XII (or XI) Denkha, the See of Alqosh divided between Mar Eliyya XIII Isho-Yab, who was not in communion with Rome, and his cousin Mar Yohannan VIII Eliyya Hormizd, who professed to be Catholic. In 1804, with the death of Eliyya Isho-Yab, Yohannan Hormizd remained the only incumbent of this ancient See. He was recognized patriarch by Rome only in 1830, after the merging of the see of Amid, thus forming the modern [[Chaldean Catholic Church]].
