Diocese of Ismayliah
Ismailien(sis)
Suffragan eparchy · Coptic Catholic Church · Ismailia, Egypt
The Eparchy of Ismayliah is a Coptic Rite Catholic eparchy in Egypt, established on 17 December 1982 from the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria, which remains its metropolitan. Its seat is the Cathedral of Saint Mark in Ismailia.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Coptic Catholic Church
- Erected
- 17 December 1982
- Latin
- Ismailien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Mark
- Annuario code
- 001001682
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 10,420
- Priests
- 20
- Catholics per priest
- 521
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
- Pola Ayoub Matta Usama Shafik Akhnoukh
- Born
- 19 February 1971
- Birthplace
- Assiut
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 Mark, Ismailia stands in Ismailia, 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 MinyaMinya
- Diocese of SohagSohag
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Centered in the city of Ismailia, the Coptic Catholic Eparchy of Ismaylia (Latin: Eparchia Ismailiensis) is an Eastern Catholic diocese of the Coptic Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See (the Catholic Church). Its jurisdiction reaches across the Canal Zone (Ismailia, Port Said, and Suez), the Sinai Peninsula, and the Sharqia Governorate. The eparchy follows the Alexandrian Rite and stands as a suffragan see of the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché Copte Catholique, B.P. 127, 15 rue A. Orabi, 41511 Ismayliah, Égypte
- Telephone
- [064]391.91.91; fax 392.33.00
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.