Pope Gabriel VII of Alexandria explained

Type:Pope
Honorific-Prefix:Saint
Gabriel VII of Alexandria
Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark
Enthroned:1525
Ended:1570
Predecessor:John XIII
Successor:John XIV
Birth Place:Manfalout, Egypt
Death Date:1570
Death Place:Egypt
Buried:Saint Mercurius Church in Coptic Cairo
Nationality:Egyptian
Religion:Coptic Orthodox Christian
Residence:Church of the Virgin Mary (Haret Zuweila)
Feast Day:(10 Epip in the Coptic calendar)
Background:plum
Type:Papal
Saint Gabriel VII
Reference:His Holiness
Spoken:Your Holiness
Religious:Pope and Patriarch
Posthumous:Saint

Pope Gabriel VII of Alexandria (Anda Gabriel VII) was the 95th Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.

He was born in the area around the monastery of El-Mouharraq, and at a young age he became a monk in the wilderness at the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great. He was ordained Patriarch in 1525 A.D. following the death of Pope John XIII. Gabriel was patriarch for more than forty years; his patriarchate spanned the early years of Ottoman rule in Egypt.

He renovated the monasteries of Saint Anthony, and Saint Paul, the first hermit, in the Eastern desert, and the monastery of El-Mouharraq in Upper Egypt.

Pope Gabriel died in 1570 following a brief illness.

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