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Patriarchal Church Alessandria, Egypt

Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria

Alexandrin(us) Coptorum

Coptic Catholic Church

Patriarchal see of the Coptic Catholic Church, first established as the Patriarchate of Alexandria on 15 August 1824, restored in 1895 and definitively in 1947. Though titled Alexandria, the patriarch resides in Cairo at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt; it is the sole metropolitan see of the Coptic Catholic Church with suffragan eparchies across Egypt. Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak was elected on 15 January 2013.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt, Cairo, in Alessandria, Egypt.

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Established
1824
Catholics
35,865
Priests
283
Territory
1,010,408 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Patriarch
His Beatitude Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak

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The cathedral

Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt, Cairo stands in Alessandria, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Cathedral of the Resurrection, Alexandria.

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History

The sole metropolitan see of the Coptic Catholic Church, a sui iuris particular church in full communion with the Holy See of the Catholic Church, is the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria. Worship follows the Alexandrian Rite in the Coptic language, and the patriarchate's archbishop is the superior of all Coptic Catholic dioceses, which lie in and around Egypt. Two cathedrals serve the patriarchate, both within Egypt: Our Lady of Egypt in Cairo, the national capital, and the Cathedral of the Resurrection in Alexandria.

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