He was succeeded in November 2009 by Archbishop-elect Emil Shimoun Nona, who until his election and ratification had been a professor of anthropology at Babel College and a pastor and vicar general in the eparchy of Alqosh.
As of 2012[update] the Papal Nuncio was Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt, whose Apostolic Nunciature is the entire state of Iraq.
The archeparchy is led by the prelature of an archbishop, concurrently the pastor of St. Paul's Cathedral.
The bishop's residence was a modern two-story building that housed the archbishopric, which was 10 km away from the cathedral.
Late on February 29, 2008, according to a report given by the Catholic News Service, Archbishop Rahho was kidnapped from his car; his bodyguards and driver were killed.