Assyrian Church of the East

====Patriarch Awa III====
{{Main|Awa Royel}}
On 6 September 2021, Mar Gewargis III formally stepped down as Catholicos-Patriarch during an Extraordinary Session of the Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East, leaving the Patriarchal See vacant. On 8 September 2021, the Holy Synod elected [[Awa III|Mar Awa Royel]], Bishop of California and Secretary of the Holy Synod, to succeed Mar Gewargis III as the 122nd [[List of patriarchs of the East|Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East]].<ref>{{cite web |title=His Beatitude Mar Meelis Zaia Remarks on the Election of the New Patriarch |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj9l0b2a5MY  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/Gj9l0b2a5MY| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|website=Youtube |publisher=Assyrian Church of the East |access-date=9 September 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sirwan |first1=Dilan |title=The Assyrian Church of the East elects new patriarch in Erbil |url=https://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/080920216 |access-date=9 September 2021 |publisher=Rudaw Media Network |date=9 September 2021}}</ref> He was Consecrated and Enthroned as Catholicos-Patriarch on 13 September 2021, on the Feast of the Holy Cross, in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist in Erbil, Iraq, and assumed the ecclesiastical name Mar Awa III.