| Honorific-Prefix: | Ayatollah Sheikh | ||||||||||||
| Mohammad-Hadi Abdekhodaei | |||||||||||||
| Native Name: | آیت الله شیخ محمدهادی عبدخدایی | ||||||||||||
| Office: | Member of the first term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. | ||||||||||||
| Term Start: | 28 May 1980 | ||||||||||||
| Term End: | 27 May 1984 | ||||||||||||
| Constituency: | Razavi Khorasan Province | ||||||||||||
| Office1: | Member of the second term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. | ||||||||||||
| Term Start1: | 28 May 1984 | ||||||||||||
| Term End1: | 27 May 1988 | ||||||||||||
| Constituency1: | Razavi Khorasan Province | ||||||||||||
| Majority1: | 340,293 (44.2%)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Office2: | Member of the fourth term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. | ||||||||||||
| Term Start2: | 28 May 1992 | ||||||||||||
| Term End2: | 26 May 1996 | ||||||||||||
| Constituency2: | Razavi Khorasan Province | ||||||||||||
| Majority2: | 340,293 (44.2%) [2] | ||||||||||||
| Office3: | The 11th Amabassador to the Holy See. | ||||||||||||
| Term Start3: | 05 May 1997 [3] | ||||||||||||
| Term End3: | 22 January 2001 [4] | ||||||||||||
| President3: | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Khatami | ||||||||||||
| Predecessor3: | Mohammad Masjed Jamei | ||||||||||||
| Successor3: | Mostafa Boroujerdi | ||||||||||||
| Office4: | Member of the Fifth term of Assembly of Experts | ||||||||||||
| Term Start4: | 24 May 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Term End4: | 21 May 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Constituency4: | Razavi Khorasan Province | ||||||||||||
| Predecessor4: | Ali Asghar Masoumi Shahroudi | ||||||||||||
| Majority4: | 873,143 (31.4%) [5] | ||||||||||||
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Sheikh Mohammad-Hadi Abdekhodaei, (born 28 July 1938) is an Iranian Ayatollah[6] He was a member of the Fifth term of the Assembly of Experts.[7] He was previously the 11th Ambassador of Iran to the Vatican,[8] and also served in the Iranian Parliament for 3 terms.[9]
Mohammad-Hadi Abdekhodaei was born on July 28, 1938, in Mashhad, Iran. He was born into a religious family, as his father Gholam Hossein Tabrizi was a well known Ayatollah. He attained Ijtihad in Qom Hawza, afterwards he obtained his doctorate from University of Tehran in Philosophy.[10] After the 1979 Iranian revolution, he was elected by the people of Razavi Khorasan to represent them in the Iranian Parliament. He was elected 3 separate times, the first term, second term, and the fourth term. He was also chosen to be the Ambassador of Iran to the Holy See, where he was awarded the Order of Merit and Virtue by Pope John Paul II.[11] He is also fluent in Farsi, Arabic, English and Italian.[12] He served as the representative of the people of Razavi Khorasan in the Assembly of Experts. He had held that role from 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election until 2024.[13]