Diocese of Cairo
Chaldean Catholic Church · Cairo, Egypt
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Cairo is an Eastern Catholic eparchy of the Chaldean Rite in Egypt, erected in 1980 and immediately subject to the Chaldean Patriarch. The see has been vacant since the death of Bishop Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf in 2009, with Fr. Paulus Sati serving as patriarchal administrator since 2018.
The see
- Tradition
- Chaldean Catholic Church
- Erected
- 1980
- Patron
- Our Lady of Fatima
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 3,000
- Population
- 2,013
- Priests
- 9
- Catholics per priest
- 333
- Extent
- 996,603 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima stands in Cairo, 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
The Chaldean Catholic Church maintains an eparchy in the Egyptian capital: the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Cairo (French: Le Caire, Latin: Eparchia Cahirensis Chaldaeorum).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Évêché Chaldéen, Basilique N.D. de Fatima, 141 rue Nouzha, 11361 Heliópolis, El Cairo
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].