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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:

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.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia · GCatholic

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.