Diocese of Sohag, Egypt (Coptic Rite)

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Coptic (Alexandrian)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Sohag / Sohagen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Alexandria

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

History

1981.09.13: Established as Diocese of Sohag / Sohagen(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Luqsor and became suffragan of Alexandria)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2020.11.03 – ...):

Bishop Thomas Halim Habib (61)

Apostolic Visitator in Oceania and the Gulf Countries of the Copts

Ordinaries

Bishops of Sohag (Coptic Rite)

Bishop Thomas Halim Habib (61)
(2020.11.03 – ...)

Bishop of Sohag of the Copts (Egypt)
Apostolic Visitator in Oceania and the Gulf Countries of the Copts

Born:	1963.07.06 (Sohag, Egypt)
Ordained Priest:	1994.03.27
Consecrated Bishop:	2021.01.23

Priest of Alexandria of the Copts (Egypt) (1994.03.27 – 2020.11.03)

Bishop of Sohag of the Copts (Egypt) (2020.11.03 – ...)

Apostolic Visitator in Oceania and the Gulf Countries of the Copts (2022.09.30 – ...)

Bishop Basilios Fawzy Al-Dabe (68)
(2019.06.14 – 2020.11.03)

Bishop of Minya of the Copts (Egypt)

Born:	1956.12.16 (Al-Minja, Egypt)
Ordained Priest:	1980.03.28
Consecrated Bishop:	2019.08.03

Priest of Minya of the Copts (Egypt) (1980.03.28 – 2019.06.14)

Bishop of Sohag of the Copts (Egypt) (2019.06.14 – 2020.11.03)

Bishop of Minya of the Copts (Egypt) (2020.11.03 – ...)

Patriarchal Administrator of Al Qusia of the Copts (Egypt) (2022.09.23 – 2023.03.31)

Bishop Youssef Aboul-Kheir (81)
(Patriarchal Administrator 2018.12.08 – 2019.06.14)

Bishop Youssef Aboul-Kheir (81)
(2003.08.09 – 2018.12.08)

Bishop emeritus of Sohag of the Copts (Egypt)

Born:	1943.09.23 (Qum-Gharib, Egypt)
Ordained Priest:	1972.09.17
Consecrated Bishop:	2003.11.13

Priest of Sohag of the Copts (Egypt) (1972.09.17 – 2003.08.09)

Bishop of Sohag of the Copts (Egypt) ([2003.08.05] 2003.08.09 – 2018.12.08)

Patriarchal Administrator of Sohag of the Copts (Egypt) (2018.12.08 – 2019.06.14)

Bishop Morkos Hakim, O.F.M.
(1982.05.26 – 2003.08.09)

Born:	1930.11.11 (Egypt)
Ordained Priest:	1955.06.26
Consecrated Bishop:	1982.06.06
Died:	2014.08.11 († 83)

Bishop of Sohag of the Copts (Egypt) (1982.05.26 – 2003.08.09)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Christ-Roi, Tahta, Sohag

Assiut (↑), Luqsor (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 16,210 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 22 parishes

Personnel: 28 priests (24 diocesan, 4 religious), 1 deacon, 40 religious (9 brothers, 31 sisters), 5 seminarians

Coptic Diocese of

Sohag

Egypt

History

Present Prelates

Ordinaries

Special Churches

Statistics (2022.12.31)