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Wissa Youssef Takla

  • Metropol, M of El Balyana
  • El Balyana
  • Coptic Bishopric, Motraneyet
  • Baliana Sohag
  • EGYPT
  • [20] 93 800816, fax 801312, p [20] 2 5907476
  • hgwissa12@hotmail.com
    anbawissa@holysynod.copticpope.org
    metropolitwissa@hotmail.com
  • www.anbawisa.org
  • * Tanta.
  • subdeacon (B Theophilus)
  • Bac Agriculture.
  • mon (Monastery St Bishoy), named Anthimus.
  • ⊖ priest; name changed to Macarius.
  • igumen.
  • served the Coptic Diaspora community in Paris, published a magazine "Elpis" (Hope).
  • ⊕ (on Pentecost; Pope Shenouda): B Wissa of Al Balyana.
  • founded the first Coptic Orth Theol Sem in El Balyana; founded Convent of St Demiana in Souhag.
  • imprisoned by President Anwar Al-Sadat; released by President Hosni Mubarak.
  • M (Pope Shenouda III.); served as Head of the Rites Committee of the Holy Synod.