Antonios Naguib
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His Beatitude and Eminence Antonios I Naguib أنطونيوس الأول نجيب |
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| Cardinal Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria | |
| Appointed | 30 March 2006 |
| Term ended | 15 January 2013 |
| Predecessor | Stéphanos II Ghattas |
| Successor | Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak |
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| Ordination | 30 October 1960 |
| Consecration | 9 September 1977 by Stephanos I Sidarouss |
| Created Cardinal | 20 November 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Bishop Patriarch |
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| Birth name | Antonios Naguib |
| Born |
18 March 1935 Samalut, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Denomination | Coptic Catholic Church |
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Antonios I Naguib (in Arabic أنطونيوس الأول نجيب) (born 18 March 1935 in Samalut) is the Coptic Catholic Patriarch emeritus of Alexandria, and a Cardinal.
From 1953 to 1958, he studied at the interritual seminary of Maadi, Cairo and, later, at the Pontifical Urbaniana College, Rome. He then went back to Egypt and was ordained to the Coptic Catholic priesthood in 1960. After being pastor for a year at Fikryak, Minya, he returned to Rome and obtained a licentiate in Theology in 1962 and in Scripture in 1964. He was Professor of Sacred Scripture in the Maadi seminary from 1964. He worked with a group of Protestant and Orthodox specialists preparing an Arabic translation of the Bible.
He became Bishop of Minya, Egypt in 1977, a post he held until he resigned in 2002. On 30 March 2006 he was elected Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, after Patriarch Stéphanos II Ghattas retired from the patriarchal office in March 2006, because of age. Patriarch Antonios Naguib received ecclesiastical communion from Pope Benedict XVI on 7 April 2006.
In April 2010, Patriarch Antonios Naguib tendered his resignation to the Holy Synod upon reaching the legal age of 75. But the Holy Synod refused the resignation and asked him to continue his duties as head of the Coptic Catholic Church.
Pope Benedict named him Relator General (recording secretary) of the October 2010 special assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East, held at the Vatican.
Naguib was made a cardinal patriarch at the consistory of 20 November 2010, and until the creation of Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi as Cardinal on 24 November 2012 was the only incumbent Eastern Catholic Patriarch eligible to vote in a papal conclave.
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