Emil Shimoun Nona (1 November 1967-) is the current Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul in the northern part of Iraq since the consent of Pope Benedict XVI to his election on 13 November 2009. [1] He took over the archdiocese after the murder of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho in early 2008. From 2005 he served as a professor of Anthropology at the Babel College. Later, he was named vicar general of the Chaldean Catholic eparchy (diocese) of Alqosh. He speaks Arabic, Italian, Chaldean and knows English.