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Cyriacus

CYRIACUS A Bishop of al-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus), assumed author of eight homilies. We have no historical evidence of either the existence of this person or the period in which he lived. On the latter, opinions greatly diverge: G. Graf (1944-1953, Vol. 1, p. 475) thinks that if one accepts what is said by the Ethiopian Book …

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Butrus Ibn Sahyun Al-Ghannami

Eminent / By Arsanious Adel

BUTRUS IBN SAHYUN AL-GHANNAMI An eighteenth-century Catholic Copt born at Akhmim in Upper Egypt. G. Macaire, who in 1899 became the first Coptic Catholic patriarch under the name of Cyril II, says of him, “At the time of this venerable prelate [Athanasius, Coptic Catholic bishop of Jerusalem], there was living in Cairo the pious and …

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Dayr Apa Ishaq (Isna)

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

DAYR APA ISHAQ (Isna) A little to the north of the present DAYR AL-SHUHADA’ (Monastery of the Martyrs) at Isna are some ruins that the inhabitants call the Monastery of Apa Ishaq (Isaac). In the “new” church, which according to the inscriptions dates at least from the end of the twelfth century, an inscription commemorates …

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Yusab

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

YUSAB The fifteenth-century bishop of Akhmim. It is not certain if a Yusab, bishop of Akhmim, ever existed in the fifteenth century, as no lists of Coptic bishops from this century exist. However, in 1938 P. Sbath mentioned four works attributed to a certain Yusab, bishop of Akhmim, in various manuscripts, stating he was a …

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Yuhanna Al-Hadhiq Al-Qibti (MU‘ALLIM)

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

YUHANNA AL-HADHIQ AL-QIBTI (MU‘ALLIM) The seventeenth-century author of a history of the world from the creation to the age of the apostles, called Kitab Akhbar al-Zaman. He intended the work as an apology, as indicated in the introduction, rather than a historical treatise. Yuhanna once had a discussion with a Jew concerning the Christian faith …

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Yu’annis

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

YU’ANNIS The thirteenth-century (?) bishop of Asyut, known for having edited the panegyric of the martyrs of Isna who died under Maximian (286-310): Saint Dilaji and her four children, Eusebius and his brothers, as well as their companions. The panegyric occupies 182 pages, with twelve lines per page. It is found in at least three …

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Mikha’il (Bishop Of Atrib)

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

MIKHA’IL The thirteenth-century bishop of Atrib and Malij. The exact dates of his birth and consecration as bishop or of his death are not known. We are certain only about the dates of twelve small theological treatises written between 1243 and 1247 before he became bishop. O. H. E. Burmester believed that he lived in …

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Al-Mufaddal Ibn Majid Ibn Al-Bishr

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

AL-MUFADDAL IBN MAJID IBN AL-BISHR Also known by the name of Ibn al-Bishr al-Katib (the secretary), a famous Coptic physician who lived during the mid-thirteenth century. M. Steinschneider suggested that he was a Jew, and C. Brockelmann, following that example, gave Mufaddal the name of al-Isra’ili. In most manuscripts, however, he is simply called al- …

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Nastas Ibn Jurayj

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

NASTAS IBN JURAYJ A tenth-century Christian physician of Egypt. The Arabic sources do not make it clear whether he was a Copt or a Melchite. However, Schacht and Meyerhof (1937, p. 137, 12) and M. Ullmann (1970, p. 138) state that he was a Copt. P. Sbath (1940) calls him a “Coptic monk,” which is …

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Dayr Al-Shuhada’ (Isna)

Places / By Youssef Matta

DAYR AL-SHUHADA’ (Isna) History This monastery is situated in the stony area (hajir in Egyptian Arabic) between the cultivated land and the mountain, about 3 miles (5 km) to the southwest of the town of ISNA (Sent in ancient Egyptian, Latopolis in the Hellenistic period). Its site is called Mountain of the Good (agathon in …

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