Diocese of Abu Qurqas
Abucurcasen(sis)
Suffragan eparchy · Coptic Catholic Church · Abu Qurqas, Egypt
The Eparchy of Abu Qurqas is a Coptic Catholic eparchy in the Minya Governorate of Egypt, erected in 2020 from the Eparchy of Minya. It belongs to the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Coptic Catholic Church
- Erected
- 7 January 2020
- Latin
- Abucurcasen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001005101
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 42,000
- Population
- 2,040,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 2.1%
- Priests
- 25
- Catholics per priest
- 1,680
- Extent
- 24,200 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.7
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
- Beshara Goda, O.F.M.
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 Saint Anthony and Saint Paul stands in Abu Qurqas, 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 Patriarchate of Alexandria (Coptic)
A suffragan of Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Coptic Catholic Diocese, Touristic Road st., Abo Korkass, Égypte
- Telephone
- [086]2368.368
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.