Career
Warda joined the Saint Peter"s Chaldean seminary in Baghdad and was ordained a priest in 1993. After receiving his master"s at the Catholic University of Louvain in 1999 he returned to Iraq. Warda was apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Zaku from July 2007 until its merger with the Diocese of Amadiyah in June 2013.
After Pope Benedict XVI gave his consent to this election in 2010 he was consecrated on 3 July of the same year.