Eparchy of Minya

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Eparchy of Minya Eparchia Hermopolitana
Location
Territory	Minya Governorate
Statistics
Population	55,200 (2023)
Parishes	30 (2023)
Information
Sui iuris church	Coptic Catholic Church
Rite	Alexandrian (Coptic)
Established	26 November 1895
Cathedral	Cathedral of Christ King, Minya
Current leadership
Eparch	Basilios Fawzy Al-Dabe
Bishops emeritus	Botros Fahim Hanna
Map

The Coptic Catholic Eparchy of Minya is a suffragan eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) of the Coptic Catholic Church (Alexandrian Rite in Coptic language) in its sole ecclesiastical province, that of the Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria (whose see is in Cairo).

It has its episcopal see the cathedral of Christ King located in Minya, the capital of the Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt.

History

Established on 26 November 1895 as an Eparchy of Minya (Curiate Italian Ermopoli Maggiore), the territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Egypt.

On 7 January 2020 from its territory was carved out the Eparchy of Abu Qurqas, for accommodation a growing population of Coptic Catholic faithful.

Eparchial Bishops

Suffragan Eparchs (Bishops) of Minya

• Joseph-Maxime Sedfaoui (6 March 1896 – 13 January 1925)
• François Baselios Bistauros (10 August 1926 – 30 November 1934)
• Georges Baraka (8 July 1938 – 9 December 1946)
• Paul Nousseir (21 January 1950 – 24 January 1967), archbishop since 1963
• Isaac Ghattas (8 May 1967 – 8 Junuary 1977), archbishop
• Antonios Naguib (26 July 1977 – 29 September 2002)
• Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak (5 October 2002 – 15 January 2013)
• Botros Fahim Hanna (25 March 2013 – 7 October 2020)
• Basilios Fawzy Al-Dabe (since 3 November 2020)

See also

• Catholic Church in Egypt
• Coptic Catholic Church

References

External links

• GCatholic

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