Type: | Pope |
Honorific-Prefix: | Pope Saint |
Maximus of Alexandria | |
Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria | |
Enthroned: | 9 November 264 |
Ended: | 22 April 282 |
Predecessor: | Dionysius |
Successor: | Theonas |
Birth Place: | Alexandria, Egypt |
Death Place: | Egypt |
Buried: | Church of the Cave, Alexandria |
Nationality: | Egyptian |
Religion: | Church of Alexandria |
Venerated: | Coptic Orthodoxy Catholic Church |
Pope Maximus of Alexandria, 15th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria. He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the 14th day of Baramudah (April 22), and by the Romans on Dec. 27.[1]