Ashur Soro

El Cajon, CA United States

Vicar General, Titular Bishop of Foraziana

Religion / Spirituality

Born in 1954 in Kirkuk, Iraq, Ashur Soro became an ordained deacon with the Assyrian Church Church of the in 1973. He has currently served 34 years as a Catholic priest and 32 years as a Catholic bishop. While ordained as a priest and bishop, Ashur Soro earned a master’s degree in systematic theology from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and both a licentiate of sacred theology and a doctor of sacred theology from the Saint Thomas Pontifical University in Rome, Italy. Since 2014, Ashur Soro has served dual roles as the Titular Bishop of Foratiana and the vicar general of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Saint Peter the Apostle in El Cajon, California.