Diocese of Assiut
Lycopolitan(us)
Suffragan eparchy · Coptic Catholic Church · Assiut, Egypt
The Eparchy of Assiut is a Coptic Catholic (Alexandrian Rite) eparchy in Upper Egypt, erected in 1947 and part of the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria. Its cathedral is the Mother of Divine Grace Cathedral in Asyut.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Coptic Catholic Church
- Erected
- 10 August 1947
- Latin
- Lycopolitan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000742
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 26,670
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Daniel Lotfy Khella
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Mother of Divine Grace Cathedral, Asyut stands in Assiut, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria
A suffragan of Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria.
The sees of this province:
- Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of AlexandriaAlessandria
- Diocese of GuizehGuizeh
- Diocese of IsmayliahIsmailia
- Diocese of MinyaMinya
- Diocese of SohagSohag
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Among the sees of the Coptic Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church of the Alexandrian Rite in full communion with the Holy See, is the suffragan Eparchy of Asyut, also called Lycopolis. Its cathedral, the Mother of Divine Grace Cathedral, stands in the city of Asyut (historic Lycopolis), capital of Egypt's Asyut Governorate.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché Copte Catholique, 140 rue As-Soura, P.O. Box 32, Assiut 71511, Égypte
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].