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This is a list continues from the of The '''Chaldean [[List of Catholicos]]-Patriarchs of Babylon''', the Church leaders of the East[[Chaldean Catholic Church]] that traces itself back from and one of the Church founded in [[AssyriaPatriarchs of the east]] first mentioned in the 1st century under Simon Peter in 1 Peter 5:13 out of which grew the Church of the East. It was Catholicos Timothy I Al-Baghdadi incorporated the numerically dominant [[St. Thomas ChristiansCatholic Church]] under was originally established by Saint Thomas in the Apostolic See of the Catholicos-Patriarch of Babylon, which is often wrongly attributed to St. Thomas as a resultfirst century AD.

The term ''Chaldean Catholic This list continues from the [[List of Patriarchs of Babylon'' is somewhat inaccurate in a geographical and historical context, as the Church was an offshoot of the Assyrian East]] that traces itself back from the Church, and founded by priests from in [[Upper Mesopotamia]], a region first mentioned in the 1st century under Simon Peter in 1 Peter 5:13 out of which had been grew the Church of the East. It was Catholicos Timothy I Al-Baghdadi incorporated the numerically dominant [[AssyriaSt. Thomas Christians]]under the Apostolic See of the Catholicos-Patriarch of Babylon, rather than in southern Mesopotamia where Babylonia and Chaldea had once beenwhich is often wrongly attributed to St. Thomas as a result.

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.

* 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 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.

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.