[[Image:AnbaBishoy.jpg|thumb|right|160px|HE Metropolitan Bishoy]]'''His Eminence Metropolitan Bishoy''' (or Bishoi) is was the [[Coptic]] [[Orthodoxy|Orthodox]] [[Metropolitan]] of Damietta, Kafr El-Sheikh and the [[Monastery]] of [[Saint]] [[Demiana]] (for nuns), Barrari, Belkas, Egypt. He has also served as secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Holy [[Synod]] since from 1985to 2012.^{[http://www.theholysynod.copticpope.org/m004.htm]}He reposed in the Lord on October 2, 2018, aged 76.

Despite His Eminence's very active and commendable involvement in fruitful ecumenical dialogues with other Churches (leading the representation of the Coptic Orthodox Church in these dialogues), he is frequently criticized by many because of his rather strong words against non-Orthodox Churches (and the [[salvation]] of their faithful),^{[http://www.zeitun-eg.net/members_contrib/anbabishoy06622.mp3 Arabic audio excerpt]} and also against those whom he labels as [[heretic]]s or [[heterodox]] over dogmatic matters he disagrees with.^{[http://www.zeitun-eg.org/members_contrib/AnbaGregoriosLetter2AnbaBishoy1985.zip]}

Some of the criticism directed against Metropolitan Bishoy can be read in this [http://www.zeitun-eg.net/members_contrib/DrBebawyArabic.doc Arabic article] and [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arbible/message/35887 this one] (also in Arabic), both by Professor Dr. George Habib Bebawi [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22George+Bebawi%22], [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22george+habib+bebawi%22], [http://www.prounione.urbe.it/dia-int/oo-rc_copt/doc/e_oo-rc_copt_1978.html], [http://www.antiochian-orthodox.co.uk/nws30.htm]([http://www.yourchurch.com/bio_gbebawi.htm bio], [http://www.coptology.com/ writings]), Professor of Eastern Theology and Dean of the Institute of Orthodox Theology (Antiochian Orthodox), Indiana, USA, former Professor and Dean of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, the University of Cambridge, UK, and former Professor of Patristics, Coptic Theological College, Egypt. See also: [http://www.zeitun-eg.org/members_contrib/DrBebawi1Mar07.pdf], [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arbible/message/37230], [http://www.zeitun-eg.net/members_contrib/DrGeorgeHBebawi5Dec06.doc], [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arbible/message/36672], [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arbible/message/35136], [http://www.akhbarelyom.org.eg/akhersaa/issues/3754/0603.html], [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arbible/message/35233], [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arbible/message/35487], [http://www.zeitun-eg.net/members_contrib/DrGeorgeHBebawi_14Nov06.zip], [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arbible/message/35807], and [http://www.akhbarelyom.org.eg/akhersaa/issues/3755/0500.html Anba Bishoy's reply to his critics in the Egyptian Akher Sa'aa weekly Arabic magazine, issue 3755, dated 11 October 2006] and [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arbible/message/35237 in this online article dated 29 October 2006]. In March 2007, the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Churches in Egypt officially and publicly protested in the newsmedia against Metropolitan Bishoy's teachings that Catholics and Protestants will not be saved, and that he would only stop attacking them if they publicly declare that they are not Christians, but since they are "claiming" to be Christians, he says that he has a duty to keep fighting them. Audio and video recordings (on CD-ROM) of Anba Bishoy mentioning his intolerant teachings and mocking famous Catholic saints like Mansour (Vincent) de Paul and Rita of Cascia The issue was widely covered in front of hundreds of Coptic youths are on sale at the Coptic Orthodox Papal Residence, Cairo, mainstream secular newsmedia in Egypt, and can also be downloaded from the Internete.g.^{, [http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=51276this Egyptian newspaper article],and [http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=51795this second one from the same newspaper]}(both articles are in Arabic).