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Suffragan eparchy Assiut, Egypt

Diocese of Assiut

Lycopolitan(us)

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.

On the map

Esri
Assiut, Egypt, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1947
Catholics
26,670
Priests
34

Parishes and churches

39 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Daniel Lotfy Khella

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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.

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.