Yousif Thomas Mirkis

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.