Diocesan profile Cairo, Egypt
Diocese of Cairo
Chaldean Catholic Church
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.
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- Established
- 1980
- Catholics
- 3,000
- Priests
- 9
- Territory
- 996,603 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
No bishop is recorded for this diocese. 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).