Career
In 2003 he was the Locum tenens of the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans. Shlemon Warduni was born at Batnaya, Iraq on April 24, 1943 and was ordained priest on June 29, 1968. On January 12, 2001 he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon and he was consecrated bishop on February 16, 2001 by Patriarch March Raphael I Bidawid.
After the death of Patriarch March Raphael I Bidawid, he was appointed Locum tenens of the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans till the election, on December 3, 2003, of Patriarch March Emmanuel III Delly.