# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yousif-thomas-mirkis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:33:45.428Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yousif-thomas-mirkis"
name: "Yousif Thomas Mirkis"
slug: "yousif-thomas-mirkis"
description: "Archbishop Mgr. Yousif Thomas Mirkis, is the Archbishop of Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Kirkuk-Sulaimaniya whose cathedral, St Paul's, was repeatedly bombed and rebuilt by Islamic State in the early 2000s. He announced a policy of starting a new university in Iraq, and has been described as a both a journalist and a human rights activist; he organised the purchase of Kirkuk's first Ultrasound system."
tagline: "Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Kirkuk Sulaimaniya"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yousif_Thomas_Mirkis_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-06-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9243697478991598
  historical:           7.671346666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ياوسيف توماس ميركيس"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump