- Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut
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H E Metropolitan Mikhail Metropolitan of Asyut Elder Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Asyut Enthroned 19 Feb 1939 Other posts member of The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Orders Ordination 17 November 1939 Consecration 25 August 1946 Personal details Birth name Matias el Makary Born born in 1911 Egypt Nationality Egyptian Denomination Oriental Orthodoxy Residence Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Cathedral Asyut Anba Mikhail نيافة الأنبا ميخائيل مطران أسيوط (born 1911 or 1912), is the Elder Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Asyut (Lycopolis), (Hieracon, (Hierakonopolis) and (Apollonopolis Parva) of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and was the Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great, in Scetes, Lower Egypt until early 2009, when he decided to resign this responsibility due to his failing health and also due to the demise of Matta El Meskeen, the Chief Hegumen in-charge of the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in 2008. Metropolitan Mikhail was born in 1911 or 1912, in the poor family of Egyptian Coptic Christians in the village of "Al-Rahmaniya", in the district of "Naga Hamadi" in "Qena" Gevernorate.[1] He became monk of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria on 19 February 1939.[2] He was ordained priest on 17 November 1939.[3] He has served as Coptic Orthodox Metropolitan of Asyut since 1946. His episcopal ordination took place on 25 August 1946.[2] At present he is probably the most senior Oriental orthodox bishop in the date of episcopal ordination in the world.[4]
See also
References
- المجمع المقدس للكنيسة القبطية الأرثوذكسية
- http://www.theholysynod.copticpope.org/m001.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Synod_of_the_Coptic_Orthodox_Patriarchate_of_Alexandria
Sources
- The Holy Synod (in Arabic and English)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Synod_of_the_Coptic_Orthodox_Patriarchate_of_Alexandria
- http://www.anbawissa.org/vb/showthread.php?t=11930 (in Arabic)
- http://www.hierarchy.religare.ru/h-aincvost-monofiz.html (in Russian)
Categories:- Coptic Orthodox bishops
- Egyptian bishops
- Egyptian Christian monks
- 1910s births
- Living people
- Year of birth uncertain
- Oriental Orthodoxy stubs
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