François Berré

François Dominique Berré, OP (13 September 1857 – 4 April 1929) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in Iraq as a missionary, bishop and apostolic delegate.

After being imprisoned in Turkey for four years during the First World War and deported to France, he returned to rebuild the mission and its orphanage.

[1] He also documented the massacre of Christians in Mardin in a report to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[5] He received his episcopal consecration on 19 March 1922 from François Daoud, Bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Amadiya.

[2] On 19 September 1922, Pope Pius XI named him Apostolic Delegate to Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Lesser Armenia.