List of Coptic saints

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Early church historians, writers, and fathers testified to the numerous Copt martyrs. Tertullian, a 3rd-century North African lawyer, wrote, "If the martyrs of the whole world were put on one arm of the balance and the martyrs of Egypt on the other, the balance will tilt in favor of the Copts."

The following is a list of saints commemorated by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. The majority of saints are from Egypt, with the majority venerated in all of Christianity.

Alphabetical list of Christian Saints in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

St. Abraam
St. Anthony the Great
St. Athanasius the Apostolic

B

St. Bishoy Kamel

C

St. Cyril VI

D

  • Dabamon
St. Demetrius
St. Demiana and the 40 Virgins

E

F

Sts. Felix, Regula, Exuperantius

G

St. Gregory of Nyssa
  • Gabriel I, the 57th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel II, the 70th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel III, the 78th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel IV, the 86th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel V, the 88th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel VI, the 91st Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel VII, the 95th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel VIII, the 97th Pope of Alexandria
  • Bishop Gabriel Abdel El-Metgaly, Bishop and martyr
  • Gallicanus, bishop of Pelusium, martyr
  • Gallicanus, martyr
  • Gelasius, monk of
    Shiheet
  • George, the ascetic
  • George
    , the prince of martyrs
  • George of Alexandria, martyr
  • George El Mozahem, martyr during the Islamic occupation of Egypt in 969
  • George the new martyr
  • Gereon, member of the Theban Legion
  • Ghalion, the anchorite
  • Judges of Israel
  • Gregory, the ascetic
  • Gregory, the illuminator, patriarch of Armenia
  • Gregory, the theologian, bishop of Nyssa, brother of St. Basil the Great
  • Gregory, the wonder-worker, bishop of Neocaesarea
  • George, Bishop of Assiut, martyr

H

St. Heraclas
  • Habakkuk, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • Habib Girgis, dean of Catechetical School of Alexandria
  • Hadid, the priest
  • Haggai, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • Hannah, the prophetess, mother of Samuel the prophet
  • Hedra, the anchorite, bishop of Aswan
  • Helena
    , empress, built numerous churches in Egypt
  • Hepatius, bishop of Gangra
  • Heraclas, the 13th Pope of Alexandria
  • Heraclides, the martyr
  • Hermina, the anchorite
  • Hezekiah, the king
  • Emperor Zeno
    , lived disguised as a monk
  • Hilarion, the anchorite of Palestine
  • Hor, the ascetic, disciple of St. Pachomius
  • Hor, Besoy, and Daydara, martyr
  • Hor and Susia and their children, and Agathon the hermit, martyrs at Tamouh
  • Hosea, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • Hour and his mother Theodora, martyrs
  • Hour El-Siriakousy, martyr

I

St. Isidore of Pelusium
  • Ibrahim, the anchorite
  • Ibrahim El-Gohary, formal prime minister of Egypt, built numerous churches
  • Ignatius, patriarch of Antioch, martyr
  • Irene, daughter of a pagan king
  • Irini, the abbess of St. Mercurius Convent in Old Cairo
  • Isaac, the 41st Pope of Alexandria
  • Isaac of Hourin
  • Isaac of Nineveh
    (i.e. Isaac the Syrian)
  • Isaac of Scetes, the disciple of St. Apollo
  • Isaac of Tiphre
  • Isaac, the hermit
  • Isaac, the priest of El-Qalali
  • Isaiah, the prophet
  • Isidore, friend of Sina the soldier, martyr
  • Isidore of Scété
    (died c. 390) Egyptian priest and desert ascetic
  • Isidore of Pelusium, ascetic and scholar, relative of Theophilus of Alexandria and Cyril of Alexandria, the father of confession of Moses the Black

J

St. John Chrysostom
St. John Colobos
  • Pope Jacob of Alexandria, the 50th Pope of Alexandria
  • Jacob of Nisibis, bishop of Nisibis, spiritual father of St. Ephrem the Syrian
  • Jacob of Serugh, the flute of the Holy Spirit
  • James, the apostle and martyr, brother of John the Apostle
  • James, the apostle and martyr, son of Alphaeus
  • James, the ascetic
  • James, bishop of Cairo
  • James of Manug
  • James
    , bishop of Jerusalem
  • Jeremiah, the prophet
  • Jerome, the priest, theologian, and historian
  • Christ
  • Joel, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • John I
    , the 29th Pope of Alexandria
  • John II
    , the 30th Pope of Alexandria
  • John III, the 40th Pope of Alexandria
  • John IV, the 48th Pope of Alexandria
  • John V, the 72nd Pope of Alexandria
  • John VI, the 74th Pope of Alexandria
  • John VII, the 77th Pope of Alexandria
  • John VIII, the 80th Pope of Alexandria
  • John IX, the 81st Pope of Alexandria
  • John X, the 85th Pope of Alexandria
  • John XI, the 89th Pope of Alexandria
  • John XII, the 93rd Pope of Alexandria
  • John XIII, the 94th Pope of Alexandria
  • John XIV, the 96th Pope of Alexandria
  • John XV, the 99th Pope of Alexandria
  • John XVI, the 103rd Pope of Alexandria
  • John XVII, the 105th Pope of Alexandria
  • John XVIII, the 107th Pope of Alexandria
  • John XIX, the 113th Pope of Alexandria
  • John, 7th-century hegumen of Scetes
  • John, the forerunner, baptist and martyr
  • John, bishop of El-Borollos, who gathered the Synaxarion
  • John
    , bishop of Nikiu
  • John, the evangelist
  • John Chrysostom, the golden month
  • John Colobos, the short, one of the desert fathers
  • John of Egypt, the anchorite
  • John Kame, the priest
  • John of Patmos, the author of the Book of Revelation
  • John of Senhout, martyr
  • John of Qalyub, monk from the monastery of St. Pishoy, and martyr
  • Jonah, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • Joseph, the 52nd Pope of Alexandria
  • Joseph II, the 115th Pope of Alexandria
  • Julian, the 11th Pope of Alexandria
  • Julietta, martyr
  • Julius of Aqfahs, the martyr and author of the biography of martyrs
  • Justus, the 6th Pope of Alexandria
  • Justus, disciple of St. Samuel The Confessor
  • Justus, martyr, husband of St. Theoclia, and father of St. Apali

K

  • Theodosius the Great
  • Karas, first bishop of the United States
  • Kaou, martyr
  • Keriakos, the anchorite
  • Kedron, the 4th Pope of Alexandria
  • Kloug, physician, ascetic, priest, and martyr
  • Kosheh Martyrs
    , martyrs during the Islamic occupation of Egypt in 2000

L

  • Latsoun, the anchorite, native of
    El Bahnasa
  • Lazarus of Bethany, the beloved of the Lord
  • Lazarus, Salomi, his wife and their children, martyr
  • Leonides of Alexandria, martyr, father of Origen
  • Longinus, abbot of
    Ennaton
    monastery in Alexandria
  • Jesus Christ
    in his side on the cross
  • Lucas I, bishop of Manfalut and Abnub
  • Lucas II, bishop of Manfalut and Abnub
  • Lucilianus and four others with him.
  • four evangelists

M

St. Maurice
St. Mercurius
St. Moses the Black

N

O

St. Onuphrius the Anchorite
  • Obadiah, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • Olaghi, the anchorite
  • Onesimus, the disciple of St. Paul
  • Onesiphorus, one of the seventy apostles
  • Onuphrius, the anchorite, one of the desert fathers (also called, Abba Nofer)
  • Or, the bishop
  • Otimus
    , the priest

P

St. Pakhom
St. Poemen

Q

  • Qozman El-Tahawy, martyr
  • Seventy Disciples
  • Quarshenoufa (Warshenofius), martyr

R

  • Rais, martyr
  • Rebecca and her five children Agathon, Peter, John, Amun, & Amuna
  • Rhipsime
    , Gaiana, and her sisters the virgins

S

St. Severus
St. Sidhom Bishay
St. Simon
  • Saint Salib, martyr during the Islamic occupation of Egypt
  • Samson, one of the judges of Israel
  • Samuel the Confessor, abbot of the El-Qualamon Monastery
  • Samuel the Prophet
  • Sana the soldier
  • Sarah, the nun of Upper Egypt
  • Desert Mother
  • Sarah and her two Sons, martyr
  • Sarapamon, archpriest of the Monastery St. John the Dwarf
  • Sarapamon, bishop of Niku
  • Sarapamon, the veiled, bishop of El-Monufia
  • Savories
  • Serapion, bishop of Thmuis, disciple of St. Anthony the Great and St. Athanasius the Apostolic
  • Serapion, the monk
  • Sergius and Bacchus, martyrs
  • Severianus, bishop of Gabala
  • Ashmunein
    , historian
  • Severus, patriarch of Antioch
  • Shenouda, the Archimandrite, abbot of the White Monastery
  • Shenouda I, the 55th Pope of Alexandria
  • Shenouda II, the 65th Pope of Alexandria
  • Shenouda III, the 117th Pope of Alexandria
  • Sidhom Bishay, martyr during the Islamic occupation of Egypt in 1844
  • Silas, the anchorite
  • Silvanus of Scetes, friend of St. Macarius the Great
  • Simeon I, the 42nd Pope of Alexandria
  • Simeon II, the 51st Pope of Alexandria
  • Simeon, of Menouf, martyr during the Islamic occupation of Egypt
  • Simon
    , the apostle and martyr
  • Simon, the stylite
  • Simon, the tanner, he moved the Mokattam mountain
  • Sina, the soldier, martyr
  • Sinouti el-Bahnasa, martyr
  • Sisoes the Great, one of the desert fathers
  • Sophia of Egypt, martyr
  • Sousenyos, martyr
  • Stephanos, the anchorite of the wilderness of Fayoum
  • protomartyr
  • Stephen, the priest & Niketa the martyr
  • Stratios, the anchorite

T

Theotokos, Saint Mary
  • Tamada and her children, and Armenius and his mother
  • Tekle Haymanot, the Ethiopian
  • Thecla, the martyr
  • Theoclia, martyr
  • Theodora and Didymus, martyrs
  • Theodora, 4th-century nun at the convent near Alexandria
  • Theodora, chaste virgin martyr
  • Theodora, the monk
  • Theodore, disciple of St. Pakhomius
  • Theodore the Martyr
  • Theban Legion, is entire Roman legion of 6666 men
  • Theodore, the prince of Mishreke
  • Theodore, the prince of Shotb
  • Theodoros I, the 45th Pope of Alexandria
  • Pachomius
  • Theodosius I, the 33rd Pope of Alexandria
  • Theodosius II
    , the 79th Pope of Alexandria
  • Theognosta, the virgin
  • Theonas, the 16th Pope of Alexandria
  • Theophilus I, the 23rd Pope of Alexandria
  • Theophilus II
    , the 60th Pope of Alexandria
  • Theophilus, the monk of the
    Ennaton
    monastery near Alexandria
  • Theophilus, the bishop of Akhmim
  • Theophilus & His Wife, martyr in Fayyum
  • Theopista, took it upon herself to become a nun and honored with the holy Eskeem
  • Saint Mary
    , who in truth, gave birth to God the Logos
  • Thomas, the apostle and martyr
  • Thomas, the anchorite of Shinshif
  • Thomas, Victor, & Isaac, of the city of
    Ashmunein
  • Timon, one of the seven deacons
  • Timothy, the anchorite
  • Timothy, the apostle, bishop, and martyr
  • Timothy, bishop of
    Ansena
  • Timothy I
    , the 22nd Pope of Alexandria
  • Timothy II
    , the 26th Pope of Alexandria
  • Timothy III
    , the 32nd Pope of Alexandria
  • St. Paul

V

W

Y

  • Yostos El Antony, the silent monk
  • Yostos, the bishop and martyr
  • Yousab, the anchorite, native of Qift
  • Yousab El Abah, the theologian, bishop of Girga and Akhmim
  • Youstina, the martyr

Z

  • Zacharias, the 64th Pope of Alexandria
  • Zacharias, bishop of
    Sakha
  • Zacharias, the perfect monk of Scetes
  • Zadok, and the 128 saints with him martyred in Persia
  • Zechariah
    , the priest and martyr
  • Zechariah, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • Zephaniah, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • Zosimas of Palestine, 5th-century anchorite

Archangels

Groups of martyrs

References

Atiya, Aziz S. The Coptic Encyclopedia. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1991.

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