Mar Dinkha IV (Born September 15, 1935), is the present Patriarch of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East. He was born in Darbandoki and baptized in the church of Mar Qaryaqos. Later on he was ordained a deacon by Metropolitan Mar Yosip Khnanisho in the church of Mar Youkhana in Harir. He then became the bishop of Tehran, Iran where he brought many changes to the Assyrians of Iran. At a conference in London in 1976 he was chosen as Patriarch.