Suffragan eparchy Assiut, Egypt
Diocese of Assiut
Lycopolitan(us)
Coptic Catholic Church
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.
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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.
- Church of the Holy Virgin, Coptic Catholic, Sidfa (كنيسة السيدة العذراء للأقباط الكاثوليك بصدفا)SidfaView parish
- Church of the Holy Virgin, Deir El-Ganadla (كنيسة السيدة العذراء)Deir El-Ganadla, Al-GhanayemView parish
- Church of the Holy Virgin, Kom Eshqaw (كنيسة السيدة العذراء)Kom Eshqaw, SidfaView parish
- Church of the Holy Virgin, Nag Razik (كنيسة السيدة العذراء)Nag Razik, AsyutView parish
- Church of the Holy Virgin, Nazlet Saharb (كنيسة السيدة العذراء)Nazlet Saharb, Sahel SelimView parish
- Church of the Martyr Abadir (كنيسة الشهيد أبادير)Amshoul, DairutView parish
- Church of the Sacred Heart (كنيسة القلب المقدس)ManfalutView parish
- Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Al-Qusiya (كنيسة قلب يسوع بالقوصية)Al-Qusiya, AsyutView parish
- Church of the Wounds of St. Francis (كنيسة جروحات القديس فرنسيس)AsyutView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
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.