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Mar Aprim Khamis is the Assyrian Church of the East Bishop of the Western United States. Mar Aprim Khamis was ordained as a bishop (along with Mar Daniel Yakob) on March 2 1973 as Bishop for Basra. He left the diocese in the same year and transferred to become Bishop of the United States and Canada. Since 1994 he serves as Bishop for the Diocese of Western United States with his see in Phoenix Arizona.