Pope John VI of Alexandria
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The Hanging Church |
Pope John VI of Alexandria was the
74th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark
.
His name was John Abu al-Majd ibn Abu Ghaleb ibn Sawiris (يوحنا أبو المجد بن أبو غالب بن سويرس). He was layman. It was said that he was a widower, and after his wife's death he chose to remain celibate. He kept the church headquarters in the Hanging Church in Old Cairo (الكنيسة المعلقة). He proscribed a canon that a church could not accept a priest unknown to them without having a consent statement from his bishop. He was buried in the Church of the Darag (كنيسة الدرج) under the tomb of Pope Zakharias, the 64th Coptic Patriarch (1004-1032 AD).
In 1210, his envoys reached the city of
Gebre Mesqel Lalibela.[1]
He was the last
Western Pentapolis
, as the people converted to Islam under the rule of the Arabs.
References
- ^ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. 62