[8] In 1850, 20 Nestorian families inhabited Bebadi, and had one priest and one functioning church as part of the diocese of Berwari.

[7] The village was the residence of Shimun XXI Eshai, Patriarch of the Church of the East, after his relocation from Quchanis in Turkey in 1927, to his exile to Cyprus in 1933, in which year 250 Assyrians inhabited Bebadi, according to a report by the League of Nations.

[10] Bebadi was destroyed by Zebari Kurds during the First Iraqi–Kurdish War in 1961, and its population of 100 families was forced to flee.

[10] 30 families returned after the establishment of the Iraqi no-fly zones in the aftermath of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq.

[11][12] By 2011, the Supreme Committee of Christian Affairs had constructed 43 houses and a hall, and developed the village's infrastructure.