t. Mary's Parish is a parish of the ChaldeanCatholic Diocese of St. Peter the Apostle, ministering to Chaldeanand Assyrian Catholics in the western United States of America. Ourspiritual leader, H.E. Mar Sarhad Y. Jammo, was installed as theBishop at St. Peter's Cathedral in El Cajon, California on July25,2002. The Diocese of St.Peter the Apostle covers a largegeographical area and is divided into three Vicariates.St. Mary's Parish is part of the Northern Vicariate and islocated in Campbell, California. It serves over 300 Assyrian andChaldean families from Mesopotamia, who live in the greater BayArea and as far away as the Monterey Penisula.This Chaldean Catholic Parish was established in 1981 and wasorginally started as a mission at the instruction of H.E. BishopMar Ibrahim Ibrahim. The growing Assyrian and Chaldean Catholiccommunity began by holidng biweekly mass throughout the first fewyears. Father Francis Dawood, (then the pastor of St. Thomas Churchin Turlock), was the first priest to serve the mission in therented Catholic Churches of St. Justine and St. Lucy.In August 1986, Father Juliano, (an Italian priest of thediocese ofTehran), was appointed by Bishop Ibrahim to look afterthe mission for a short time, and until Father Francis resumed hisresponsibility, once again.In 1987, Father Yoshia Sana, who had just returned from hisstudies in Rome, was sent by H.E. Mar Ibrahim to minister and serveour community. Shortly thereafter, our ministry developed into aparish under the Name of our Holy Mother Mary and began serving 150families.In March 1988, the parish purchased a home in San Jose that wasused as a residence for the priest, a rectory, and for variouscommittee meetings, catechism and Bible study. In March 1995 theparish purchased an old church building located at 109 N. FirstStreet in city of Campbell. After a thorough restoration andcontinued remodeling of the building, today we are blessed andfortunante to have a beautiful church in downtown Campbell.The Church of St. Mary was consecrated by H.E. Mar IbrahimIbrahim, the Bishop of the Chaldean Diocese of St. Thomas inDetroit, on September 23,1996.The Church was dedicated to theBlessed Virgin Mary, the patron saint of our parish, who throughher prayers and intercessions, has always blessed this parish byHer Divine Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, so that we many always giveglory to Him and to be able to minister to our people faithfullyand in righteousness.Finally, it was God's will on May 21,2002, that the Holy FatherPope John Paul II accepted the Chaldean Synod's election of MarSarhad Y. Jammo and named him as the first bishop of the newlycreated diocese, our Diocese ol St. Peter the Apostle. By the Graceof God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit our pastor, the Bishop,for the past eleven years has been leading us as one strongDiocese, with a reformed service that is united in performance andauthentic in worship, maintaining the apostolic tradition of ourEastern Catholic Church of Mesopotamia.In 2007, our bishop appointed Chorbishop Father Samuel Dinkha asa Co-Pastor with Fr. Sana to serve and minister the growing parish.In September 2011, Fr. Zuhair (Anderawis) Toma was appointed by thebishop to serve the parish, followed by Father Michael Barota, thecurrent pastor of St. Mary's who began his service in July2012.