Patriarchal Vicars
Since the Mandate of H.B. Maximos III
Mazloum:
1835 1836 Rev. Thomas Qoyoumgi, Salvatorian Basilian Priest
1837 1859 Most Rev. Basil Kfoury
1865 1866 Most Rev. Ambrosios
1867 ? Most Rev. Joannitius Massamiri
1879 1902 Most Rev. Athanasios Naser
1903 1919 Most Rev. Macarios Saba
1920 1921 Most Rev. Stephen Sukkariyeh
1922 1928 Most Rev. Anthony Faraj
1932 1954 Most Rev. Dionysios Kfoury
1954 1968 Most Rev. Elias Zoghby
1968 Present Most Rev. Paul Antaki
Most Reverend Archbishop Paul Antaki, Titular Bishop of Nubia, Patriarchal Vicar for Egypt and Sudan, was born in Cairo in 1927. After passing both the French and Egyptian Baccalaureates, he did his theological studies at St. Annes Seminary, Jerusalem. He was ordained Priest on July 2, 1950. He was a Pastor of a parish in Alexandria from 1951 to 1954, then Director of the Patriarchal College of Cairo from 1954 to 1957. He was the secretary to the Patriarchate of Alexandria from 1957 to 1960 and Patriarchal Vicar at Alexandria from 1960 to 1966. In 1966 he was appointed Superior of the Junior seminary of Rayak, until his Episcopal ordination on December 1, 1968. He was ordained, in the Cathedral of Beirut, by His Beatitude Maximos V Hakim assisted by Archbishop Elias Zoghby and Archbishop Tawil on December 1, 2968.