Apostolic Vicariate of Alexandria of Egypt

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Apostolic Vicariate of Alexandria of Egypt

Vicariatus Apostolicus Alexandrinus Aegypti

النيابة الرسولية للإسكندرية بمصر
Apostolic Vicar
Claudio Lurati

The Apostolic Vicariate of Alexandria of Egypt, or in full - of Alexandria of Egypt-Heliopolis-Port Said (

Roman Catholic Apostolic vicariate (missionary ordinariate) in Egypt, named after its cathedral see in Alexandria
, a port city and former Catholic patriarchate.

It is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province.

Special Churches

  • the cathedral episcopal see in Alexandria, Saint Catherine.
  • the co-cathedral and former cathedral Notre-Dame of Heliopolis, in Egypt's metropolitan national capital Cairo's suburb Heliopolis, formerly seat of a separate apostolic vicariate Heliopolis in northern Egypt
  • the co-cathedral and former cathedral Our Lady and St. Michael, in Port Said, formerly seat of a separate apostolic vicariate in southern Egypt
  • minor basilica
    .

History

It was on 27 January 1951 as Apostolic Vicariate of Alexandria of Egypt. Pope John Paul II visited in February 2000, Pope Francis in April 2017.

United titles

Its full title reflects the (re)absorption of two former Latin Church missionary circonscriptions in Egypt :

  • the northern
    Apostolic Vicariate of Heliopolis in Egypt
    (Eliopoli di Egitto) (since November 30, 1987), which had a see in the Cairo suburb it's named after
  • the southern Apostolic Vicariate of Port-Said (since November 30, 1987), which had a see in the port city on the Suez Canal

Episcopal incumbents

All vicars were Latin Church titular bishops and members of religious orders

Apostolic Vicars of Egypt

Until 1921, the Apostolic Vicar was also the Holy See's

Apostolic Delegate
to Egypt and Arabia.

  • Bishop Perpetuo Guasco da Solero,
    O.F.M. Obs.
    (1839.06.07 – 1859.08.02)
  • Bishop
    O.F.M. Obs.
    (1860.09.28 – 1866.08.06)
  • Archbishop Ljudevit Ćurčija, (O.F.M.) (1866.07.27 – 1881.05.01)
  • Archbishop Anacleto Chicaro, O.F.M. (1881.05.12 – 1888.10.05)
  • Archbishop Aurelio Briante, O.F.M. (1904.07.23 – 1921.02)
  • Bishop
    O.P.
    (1919.07.03 – 1921.06.28), who became Bishop of Alexandria in Ontario (Canada) (1921.06.28 – 1941.07.27)
  • Bishop Igino Nuti, O.F.M. (1921.12.20 – 1945, followed by a four-year vacancy)
Apostolic Vicars of Alexandria of Egypt
  • Jean de Capistran Aimé Cayer, O.F.M. (26 May 1949 – 13 April 1978)
  • Egidio Sampieri, O.F.M. (29 April 1978 – 26 August 2000)
  • Giuseppe Bausardo,
    S.D.B.
    (24 February 2001 – 29 October 2008)
  • Apostolic Administrator
    Gennaro De Martino (29 October 2008 – 1 September 2009)
  • Adel Zaky, O.F.M. (1 September 2009 – 21 July 2019)
  • Apostolic Administrator
    Elia Eskandr Abd Elmalak, O.F.M. (29 September 2019 - 6 August 2020)
  • Bishop-elect Claudio Lurati, M.C.C.J. (6 August 2020 -)

See also

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