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Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak

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Birth name
  
Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak

Predecessor
  
Antonios Naguib

Nationality
  
Egyptian

Ordination
  
February 7, 1980


Consecration
  
November 15, 2002

Name
  
Ibrahim Sidrak

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In office
  
15 January 2013 – present

Born
  
19 August 1955 (age 69) Beni-Chokeir, Egypt (
1955-08-19
)

Previous post
  
Bishop of Minya (2002-2013)


Denomination
  
Coptic Catholic Church

Other posts
  

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Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak (Arabic: إبراهيم إسحاق سدراك‎‎; born 19 August 1955 in Beni-Chokeir, Egypt) is the current Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria.

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Life

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Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak was born on 19 August 1955 in Beni-Chokeir, Asyut Governorate. He studied Philosophy and Theology on the St. Leo’s Patriarchal Seminary in Maadi (a suburb of Cairo) and was ordained a priest in 1980. For the following two years he served in the Parish of Archangel Michael in Cairo. Being sent to Rome to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University he received his doctorate in dogmatic theology. Between 1990 and 2001 he was the rector of the Patriarchal Seminary in Maadi. For a short period in 2002 he served as the parish priest of the patriarchal Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt, in Cairo. In October 2002 he was elected Bishop of Minya, a post in which he served until his canonical election as patriarch.

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Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak was elected as Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria by the synod of the Coptic Catholic Church on 15 January 2013, in succession of Patriarch Antonios I Naguib who had resigned because of poor health, after he had a stroke, suffered partial paralysis and underwent brain surgery. Patriarch Sidrak asked for and received ecclesiastical communion from Pope Benedict XVI three days later, on 18 January 2013.

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Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak often works closely with Pope Francis and the Coptic Orthodox Pope, Tawadros II, with the goal and aim of unifying the Coptic Orthodox and Coptic Catholic churches of Egypt.

References

Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak Wikipedia


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