Diocese of Minya
Hermopolitan(us)
Suffragan eparchy · Coptic Catholic Church · Minya, Egypt
The Coptic Catholic Eparchy of Minya is an Eastern Catholic eparchy of the Coptic Catholic Church in Upper Egypt, suffragan to the Patriarchate of Alexandria. Established on 26 November 1895, its seat is the Cathedral of Christ the King in Minya.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Coptic Catholic Church
- Erected
- 26 November 1895
- Latin
- Hermopolitan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001002251
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 55,200
- Priests
- 72
- Catholics per priest
- 767
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
- Eparch
- Basilios Fawzy Al-Dabe
- Born
- 16 December 1956
- Birthplace
- Minya
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Christ the King stands in Minya, 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.
The province of Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria
A suffragan of Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria.
The sees of this province:
- Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of AlexandriaAlessandria
- Diocese of AssiutAssiut
- Diocese of GuizehGuizeh
- Diocese of IsmayliahIsmailia
- Diocese of SohagSohag
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within the Coptic Catholic Church, which follows the Alexandrian Rite in the Coptic language, the Eparchy of Minya is a suffragan eparchy, an Eastern Catholic diocese, in that church's sole ecclesiastical province, that of the Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria, whose see is in Cairo. Its episcopal seat is the cathedral of Christ King in Minya, capital of the Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia · GCatholic
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].