Diocese of Assiut, Egypt (Coptic Rite)

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Coptic (Alexandrian)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Assiut / Lycopolis / Assiout (français) / Asyut / Lycopolitan(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Alexandria

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

History

1947.08.10: Established as Diocese of Assiut / Lycopolis / Assiout (français) / Asyut / Lycopolitan(us) (Latin) (from Diocese of Luqsor, from the suppressed Titular Episcopal See of Lycopolis and became suffragan of Alexandria)
2022.09.23: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Al Qusia

Present Prelates

Bishop (2022.09.23 – ...):

Bishop Danial Lofty Khella (55)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Assiut (Coptic Rite)

Bishop Danial Lofty Khella (55)
(2022.09.23 – ...)

Bishop of Assiut of the Copts (Egypt)

Born:	1969.05.04 (Naja Rezeeq, Egypt)
Ordained Priest:	1996.07.18
Consecrated Bishop:	2019.09.05

Priest of Ismayliah of the Copts (Egypt) (1996.07.18 – 2019.06.29)

Bishop of Ismayliah of the Copts (Egypt) (2019.06.29 – 2022.09.23)

Patriarchal Administrator of Ismayliah of the Copts (Egypt) (2022.09.23 – 2023.03.31)

Bishop of Assiut of the Copts (Egypt) (2022.09.23 – ...)

Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sedrak (69)
(Patriarchal Administrator 2021.11.03 – 2022.09.23)

Bishop Kyrillos Kamal William Samaan, O.F.M.
(1990.05.16 – 2021.11.03)

Born:	1946.10.01 (Shanaynah, Egypt)
Ordained Priest:	1974.06.10
Consecrated Bishop:	1990.06.03
Died:	2023.05.11 (Cairo, Egypt † 76)

Bishop of Assiut of the Copts (Egypt) (1990.05.16 – 2021.11.03)

Apostolic Visitator in the United States and Canada of the Copts (2022.09.30 – 2023.05.11)

Bishop Youhanna Nueir, O.F.M.
(1965.03.26 – 1990.03.20)

Born:	1914.08.28 (Egypt)
Ordained Priest:	1943.06.13
Consecrated Bishop:	1956.01.29
Died:	1995.08.13 († 80)

Titular Bishop of Phatanus (1955.12.08 – 1965.03.26)

Auxiliary Bishop of Luqsor of the Copts (Egypt) (1955.12.08 – 1965.03.26)

Bishop of Assiut of the Copts (Egypt) (1965.03.26 – 1990.03.20)

Bishop Alexandros Scandar
(1947.08.09 – 1964.12.29)

Born:	1895.03.13 (Egypt)
Ordained Priest:	1922.06.11
Consecrated Bishop:	1947.12.14
Died:	1964.12.29 († 69)

Bishop of Assiut of the Copts (Egypt) (1947.08.09 – 1964.12.29)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Aghnatios Elias Yaacoub, S.J. (1983.05.19 – 1986.07.15)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Mère du Divin Amour, Asyut, Asyut

Al Qusia (↑), Sohag (↓)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Population: 26,670 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 28 parishes, 6 missions

Personnel: 34 priests (31 diocesan, 3 religious), 65 religious (5 brothers, 60 sisters), 7 seminarians

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