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  Abraam Bishop of Fayoum information - Search.com
Abraam (1829-1914 A.D.), the Departed Bishop of Fayoum and Giza, Egypt, and "Friend of the Poor", is a well-known modern-day Coptic Orthodox saint.
The late Anba Marcos, Bishop of Luxor, was ordained as a monk in 1870 at El-Meharrak Monastery and grew up under the leadership of Fr.
At the same time, Anba Isaac, Metropolitan of the province of Fayoum and Giza, departed, then the four fathers asked the Pope to ordain their father as a bishop for that diocese.
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 Abraam of Fayoum - OrthodoxWiki
Abraam (1829-1914 A.D.), the departed Bishop of Fayoum, Egypt, and "Friend of the Poor," is a well-known modern-day Coptic Orthodox saint.
It was a summer afternoon, a ray of the sun through a hole in the shade of the window was mistaken by Anba Abraam as a rope (for hanging clothes, which was a habit in those days to install ropes for hanging clothes).
Saint (Anba) Abraam Museum: An Album of the Contents of the Museum of The Departed Bishop of Fayoum; The Monastery of St. Mercurius known as 'Deir AL-Azab' Fayoum, Egypt (PDF)
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 Abraam Bishop of Fayoum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abraam (1829-1914 A.D.), the Departed Metropolitan bishop of Fayoum and Giza, Egypt, and "Friend of the Poor", is a well-known modern-day Egyptian Coptic Orthodox saint.
The Pope and the people of Giza and of Fayoum became happy and joyful on that day for the consecration of their new metropolitan Anba Abraam, in 1881.
In 1964, the Holy Synod of Coptic Orthodox Bishops decided to add his name to the Saints mentioned in the Diptych of the Saints during the Divine Liturgy, and many Coptic Orthodox churches around the world today are named after him.
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 Abraam of Fayoum - OrthodoxWiki
Abraam (1829-1914 A.D.), the departed Bishop of Fayoum, Egypt, and "Friend of the Poor," is a well-known modern-day Coptic Orthodox saint.
When he was 15 years old, he got famous among his mates; the priests recommended him to Anba (Abba) Youssab, the bishop of the diocese, who ordained him as a deacon during his visit to the village's church.
Saint (Anba) Abraam Museum: An Album of the Contents of the Museum of The Departed Bishop of Fayoum; The Monastery of St. Mercurius known as 'Deir AL-Azab' Fayoum, Egypt (PDF)
orthodoxwiki.org /Abraam_of_Fayoum   (1578 words)

  
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Accompanied by their Graces Bishops Philippos, Bishoy, Pachomios, Joannes [all for Lower Egypt] and bishops Hedra, Arsenios [for Upper Egypt] It was decided that Metropolitan Athanasios should go with them but he asked to be excused because of his illness and Abba Suriel accompanied them (representing the immigration countries).
Accompanied by HG Bishop Kyrollos of Nage-Hamady, Bishop Marcos of Shubra El-Khema and Bishop Joannes.
Bishop Paola Jiflio the Ambassador of the Vatican in Egypt he delivered an invitation to Pope Shenouda to attend the Vatican's celebations on 19 January 2000.
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 Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope of Alexandria, being the Diocesan Bishop of Alexandria.
This was a title given to St. Alexander I (the 19th Archbishop of Alexandria), in honor of the canonical responsibilities bestowed upon the Primates of Alexandria thereafter, to determine the date of the Pascha, and to convey ecclesiastical letters of notification to all Hierarchies of the Universal Church, along with the Paschal encyclical.
Later, due to the importance and dignity of Alexandria as a Major Christian Center and as an Ancient Apostolic Throne, and in addition to the fact that the Bishop of Alexandria is the successor of the first Bishop on the Throne of Alexandria, he was given the title of “Archbishop” by the late Third Century.
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It happened that his father was in the City of Lydd and attended the feast of the consecration of the Church of St. George the martyr.
It happened that St. Julius El-Akfehas was present at the time of his martyrdom, so he took his body and sent it with two of his men to St. Nehrou's town with great honour.
The author of the work, the "Martyrdom of Michael (Gorbon)" (914-918), the Tbetsk bishop Stephen relates, that the body of Saint Gorbones was buried together with the bodies of his 133 warriors together in a common pit.
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 The Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Sydney & its Affiliated Regions - Resources and Literature
At the age of twelve, St. Abanoub entered the church and heard the priest asking the congregation to remain faithful throughout the persecutions that were taking place at the hands of Diocletion the Roman Emperor.
According to the Holy Gospel of St John, St Phillip was the third of the twelve disciples to follow the Lord Jesus Christ after St Andrew.
Anba Abraam was a saintly monk of the twentieth century.
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 News from the Mother Church
A splendid celebration was held on 21 December 1998 at St. Mark's Hall at the Coptic Patriarchate in Cairo to honour Dr Ragheb Moftah, Head of the Music Department at the Institute of Coptic Studies, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
On 27 January, Pope Shenouda consecrated the icons of St. George's Church, Daytona Beach, and concelebrated the mass with the bishops and priests of the diocese.
On Saturday 5 June 1999, the five new bishops travelled with HH to St Bishoy Monastery where their ministry will be arranged along with the passing of a spiritual retreat period before beginning the ministry.
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 Churches of Egypt > Coptic Orthodox Churches > St. Takla Haymanot Church
St Mary and St Bakhomious Church - Koubry El-Namous
St. Mary and Archangel Gabriel - Seif St.,
Mary and St. Bishoy, and St. Mary and St. Rewies - Anba Rewis - El-Abbaseya
st-takla.org /Links/Coptic-Links-02-Churches-a-Egypt.html   (389 words)

  
 Miracles by Anba Abraam Bishop of Elfayoum
Anba Abraam heard that the young woman fainted on the street, he hurried to her, took water and prayed and sprinkled the water on he.
Anba Abraam was asked to a meeting in the house of the Patriarchate in Cairo to resolve a dispute between two feuding bishops.
Anba Abraam was called to the house of the Patriarchate to attend a meeting regarding the defrocking of a disobedient priest.
www.copticchurch.net /topics/synexarion/abraam-miracles.html   (7556 words)

  
 Anba Abraam
The late "Anba Marcos", the bishop of Luxor, was ordained as a monk in 1870 at El-Maharrak Monastery and he grew up under the the leadership of Fr.
He went with four of his students to Cairo to meet "Anba Marcous" the Bishop, and at that time he was acting Pope, and they asked him to go to the Monastery of Anba Bishoy at the "Natroun-Valley" in the western desert of Egypt, where they remained for a short period.
At the same time Anba Isaac the metropolitan of the province of Fayoum and Gieza departed, then the four fathers asked the Pope to ordain their father as a bishop for that diocese.
www.copticchurch.net /topics/synexarion/abraam.html   (1102 words)

  
 English Spiritual Articles
Knowing the bishop, he felt that remonstrance of any sort was useless, so he rebought the garment, hoping that when the bishop found that he had done this, he would be persuaded to wear it.
Once the Pope sent for the bishop to attend a council held to judge a priest, who was charged with allowing a bishop who was under the ban of the church, to enter the church, gave him food to eat and, a place to sleep in.
God saw that the bishop's heart was open widely full of love to the poor and rich, to the faithful and unfaithful men, so he bestowed to him the grace of the exorcism of evil spirits.
www.copticchurch.org /English_spiritual_articles/AnbaAbraam.htm   (6457 words)

  
 Almsgiving
Abraam the departed Bishop of Fayoum is a good example for our generation here and now: He gave even when there was not much left.
The same happened when he was the deputy of the bishop of Menia, and again when he was the bishop of Fayoum.
He even was honored, by giving, after his departure: When a man came to the Azab (St. Mercurius abu Sefin) Monastery in Fayoum asking for him (not knowing that he departed), the man was told to go in.
www.stmarycoptorthodox.org /almsgiving.htm   (2309 words)

  
 Church of Alexandria (Coptic) - OrthodoxWiki
Copts believe that the Lord is perfect in his divinity, and he is perfect in his humanity, but his divinity and His humanity were united in one nature called "the nature of the incarnate Word," which was articulated by St. Cyril of Alexandria.
Copts thus believe in two natures "human" and "divine" that are united in one "without mingling, without confusion, and without alteration" (from the declaration of faith at the end of the Coptic divine liturgy).
Many scholars such as St. Jerome visited the school of Alexandria to exchange ideas and to communicate directly with its scholars.
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 Holy Family Egypt
A minaret of a mosque close beside the Church of St. George at Ishnin al-Nasara, which is a familiar sight in Egypt.
Cornelis Hulsman speaking to the congregation of the Church of St. George, at Ishnin al-Nasara.
He is carrying a censer and burning incense in the church according to the liturgy of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
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HH was accompanied with Bishops Morcos, Joannes and Athanasios along with Dr Tharwat Bassili, Adv.
We learned from the priests of Virgin Mary and St Mina church in Sydney that the City Council allowed to receive the upper floor of St Mina old church in Sydneyham in order to transform it into an Egyptian Coptic Museum.
The circle was attended by Metropolitans and Bishops Pachomius, Bishoy, Moussa, Abraam, Lukas, Daniel and Isodorus along with 100 priests and a number of deacons and deaconesses in various dioceses all over the country.
www.coptic.net /public/news/2001-12-21.txt   (683 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
The appellation of “Pope” became recognized as a Title, but this did not mean that it represented a title different or higher than the title of “Patriarch.” It is to be noted, however, that only the Patriarch of Alexandria has the double title of Pope and Patriarch among the Eastern Orthodox Thrones.
So was the case among other Provinces in the Roman Empire East & West (Rome, Antioch, Jerusalem, Ephesus, Ceasaria, Edessa, Seleucia and many others major Metropolitanates), as the Bishops of these Major Cities, and those who were presiding over the Churches, which were first established within the region, became to be known as Archbishops.
Abraam Metropolitan of Giza & Fayoum الأنبا إبرآم أسقف الفيوم
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Anxious to see the Church grow, he negotiated with the Bishop and Dean of Ripon for the occasional use of St. Mary Magdalene’s Chapel in Ripon but it was a disappointment to him that it depended on support from existing church members rather than an influx of new blood.
Father Domadios El-Antoni was raised to the episcopate to be the successor of Anba Younnas as Bishop of Khartoum on 30
He restored older churches, among which were St. George in Khartoum North, St. Mark and St. George in Khartoum and also churches in El Obied, in the west of Sudan.
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 Coptic Centre, UK
After he had spent 33 years as a Bishop, rich with deep fellowship with God and real worship, serving everybody sincerely, tiring continuously for the poor, using the gift of healing and exorcising of evil spirits, he was ill in bed for a month.
There was a holy bishop who was close to Saint Poem en while he was celebrating the feast of some martyrs with several believers in one of the monasteries.
When they had arrived at the Fayoum lake, the angel of the Lord returned him to the place where the body of his father was; the elders also tried to separate their bodies several times, but they could not.
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 Patriarch of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They were used together in the same capacity and this dual title did not put him on a higher ecclesiastical/hierarchical level than the other Patriarchs of the Pentarchy.
According to church tradition, the Patriarchate was founded in 42 by the Apostle Saint Mark the Evangelist.
Pope and Lord Archbishop of the Great City of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Orthodox and Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Holy Apostle that is, in Egypt, Pentapolis, Libya, Nubia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and all Africa.
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 egyptians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The icon is one of the oldest in the world.]] St. Mark is said to have founded the Holy Apostolic See of Alexandria and to have become its first Patriarch.
Within 50 years of St. Mark's arrival in Alexandria, a fragment of New Testament writings appeared in Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), which suggests that Christianity already began to spread south of Alexandria at an early date.
By the AD mid-third century, a sizable number of Egyptians were persecuted by the Romans on account of having adopted the new Christian faith, beginning with the Edict of Decius.
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 DEHAI MAILING LIST ARCHIVE: [DEHAI] Scene set for Third International Seminar on Coptic Studies in Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
and Hani Takla, president of the St Shenouda Society and the patriarchate.
Abraam, is the burial place of the much loved bishop of Fayoum and Giza who died
The 2004 seminar drew attention to Fayoum's importance to the growth and
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 Coptic Christianity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Nestorians took the opportunity of Cyril's death to revive their campaign against Cyrillian Christology.
St Mark Coptic Cathedral in Alexandria By the time the Council of Chalcedon was called, politics had already started to intermingle with Church affairs.
When the Emperor Marcianus interfered with matters of faith in the Church, the response of Saint Dioscorus, the Pope of Alexandria who was later to be exiled, to this interference was clear: "You have nothing to do with the Church." It was at Chalcedon that the emperor would take His revenge for the Pope's frankness.
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The bishop concluded this story by addressing me, that he mentioned it to confirm my belief in marriage.
St Paul wrote to the Colossians saying, "Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds." [Colossians 3:9] Lying was a pattern of the old man’s deed.
I expressed to his wife, who was a servant at St Mark Church in Giza that I was sorry that he didn’t leave for them anything.
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 Bishop St. Abraam of Fayoum Gallery  صور القديس ...
Bishop St. Abraam of Fayoum Gallery صور القديس الأنبا إبرآم أسقف الفيوم - Christian and Coptic Saints Gallery صور القديسين - Gallery الجاليري - Saint Tekla Haymanot COC - Alexandria - Egypt
Bishop St. Abraam of Fayoum Gallery صور القديس الأنبا إبرآم أسقف الفيوم
A Coptic icon for Saint Abram Bishop of Fayoom, Egypt
st-takla.org /Gallery/05-Coptic-Saints-images/01-Coptic-Orthodox-Saints_Alef/Christian-Coptic-Album_Saint-Bishop-Abraam-of-Fayoum-01.html   (94 words)

  
 St Demiana & St Athanasius Coptic Orthodox Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
St Demiana & St Athanasius Coptic Orthodox Church
Pope's, Metropolitans and Bishops who have visited St. Demiana & St. Athanasius Church :
Bishoy Yassa (St. Mary & St. Merkorious's Church) - 1 mass
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 Other Links
Mina and St. Abanoub Coptic Orthodox Church - Miamisburg, Ohio
Mary and St. Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church - St. Louis, Missouri
Mary and St. Moses Coptic Orthodox Abbey - Corpus Christi, Texas
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 The Holy Bible Web Site @ Zeitun-eg.org - Athens, First Century AD
A rare RealAudio clip of a message by Pope St. Kyrillos VI in his own voice (Arabic/Coptic - 4:21 min - 16Kbps) - Requires RealPlayer G2 or later
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
[Zeitun Apparitions of Virgin Mary] [Zeitun Gallery] [St.
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