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name= Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa[[Image:Alexandria logo.gif|center|The Church of Alexandria]]|

territory=Egypt and Africa|possessions= ?none|language=Greek, SwahiliArab, French, English, local languages|

website=[http://www.greekorthodox-alexandriapatriarchateofalexandria.orgcom/ index.php?lang=en Church of Alexandria]

When [[Alexander the Great]] conquered Egypt about 332-331 BC he established the city of Alexandria, named after him, from which his Greek-speaking successors, the Ptolemy dynasty, ruled Egypt. Alexandria also had many Greek-speaking Jewish inhabitants, and it was here that the Old Testament scriptures were translated into Greek, the [[Septuagint]] version. During the first century BC the city, and Egypt generally passed under Roman rule.

[[St Mark]], a disciple of [[Apostle Peter|St Peter]] evangelised Egypt in the middle of the first century. He probably arrived about AD 40, and met a martyr's death around AD 63. Little is known of the early history of the Church in Alexandria and Egypt, beyond a bare list of names of bishops. By the end of the second century, however, the church had begun to spread among the indigenous population, and the Scriptures and Liturgical texts were being translated into local languages.

In recent years, a considerable missionary effort was enacted by Pope [[Petros VII (Papapetrou) of Alexandria|Petros VII]]. During his seven years as patriarch (1997-2004), he worked tirelessly to spread the Orthodox Christian [[faith]] Faith in Arab nations and throughout Africa, raising up native [[clergy]] and encouraging the use of local languages in the liturgical life of the Church. Missions spread and thrived in Kenya, Uganda, [[Madagascar]], [[Cameroon]], and elsewhere across the African continent.

*His Beatitude [[Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria|Theodoros II]], Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all All Africa*His Eminence [[Paul Makarios (LyngrisTillyrides) of MemphisNairobi|Paul Makarios (LyngrisTillyrides)]], Elder Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of MemphisNairobi|MemphisNairobi and All Kenya]]*His Eminence [[Dionysios Jonah (HatzivasiliouLwanga) of LeontopolisKampala|Dionysios Jonah (HatzivasiliouLwanga)]], Elder Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of LeontopolisKampala|LeontopolisKampala and All Uganda]]*His Eminence [[Petros Seraphim (GiakoumelosKykkotis) of AksumZimbabwe|Petros Seraphim (GiakoumelosKykkotis)]], Elder Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of AksumZimbabwe|AksumZimbabwe and Angola and Southern Africa]]*His Eminence [[Makarios Alexandros (TillyridesGianniris) of KenyaNigeria|Makarios Alexandros (TillyridesGianniris)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of KenyaNigeria|KenyaNigeria and the Gulf of Guinea]]*His Eminence [[Jonah Theophylaktos (LwangaTzoumerkas) of KampalaTripoli|Jonah Theophylaktos (LwangaTzoumerkas)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Kampala Tripoli|Tripoli and All UgandaLybia]]*His Eminence [[Sergios (Kykkotis) of the Cape of Good Hope|Sergios (Kykkotis)]], Archbishop of the [[Archdiocese of the Cape of Good Hope|Kampala Cape of Good Hope and Natal and All UgandaDependencies]]*His Eminence [[Seraphim Ieronymos (IakovouMuzeeyi) of JohannesburgMwanza|Seraphim Ieronymos (IakovouMuzeeyi)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Johannesburg Mwanza|Mwanza and PretoriaWestern Tanzania]]*His Eminence [[George (Vladimirou) of Guinea|George (Vladimirou)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Guinea|Johannesburg Guinea and Pretoriathe African Coast]]*His Eminence [[Alexandros Nicholas II (GiannirisAntoniou) of NigeriaHermopolis|Alexander Nicholas II (GiannirisAntoniou)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of NigeriaHermopolis|NigeriaHermopolis and Egypt Primum]]*His Eminence [[Theophylaktos Dimitrios (TzoumerkasZaharengas) of TripoliIrinoupolis|Theophylaktos Dimitrios (TzoumerkasZaharengas)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of TripolisIrinoupolis|TripolisIrinoupolis and Eastern Tanzania and Seychelles]]*His Eminence Sergios[[Damaskinos (Papandreou) of Johannesburg|Damaskinos (Papandreou)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of the Cape Johannesburg|Johannesburg and Pretoria and South Africa]]*His Eminence [[Ignatios (Sennis) of Good HopeAntananarivo|the Cape Ignatios (Sennis)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Good HopeAntananarivo|Antananarivo and Northern Madagascar and Indian Islands]]*His Eminence [[Alexios Emmanuel (LeontaritisKiagias) of CarthagePtolemais|AlexiosEmmanuel (Kiagias)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of CarthagePtolemais|CarthagePtolemais and Upper Egypt]]*His Eminence Ieronymos[[Gregory (Stergiou) of Cameroon|Gregory (Stergiou)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of MwanzaCameroon|MwanzaCameroon and Central Africa]]*His Eminence [[Kallinikos Gabriel (PippasRaftopoulos) of PilousionLeontopolis|Kallinikos Gabriel (PippasRaftopoulos)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of PilousionLeontopolis|PilousionLeontopolis and Augustamnica Secunda and the Red Sea]]*His Eminence [[Proterios Nikodemos II (PavlopoulosPriangelos) of PtolemaisMemphis|Proterios Nikodemos II (PavlopoulosPriangelos)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Metropolis Archdiocese of PtolemaisMemphis|PtolemaisMemphis and All Egypt]]*His Eminence [[George Meletios (VladimirouKamiloudes) of ZimbabweKatanga|George Meletios (VladimirouKamiloudes)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of ZimbabweKatanga|ZimbabweKatanga and Mainland Africa]]*His Eminence [[Nicholas Gennadios (Stantzios) of ErmoupolisBotswana|NicholasGennadios (Stantzios)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of ErmoupolisBotswana|ErmoupolisBotswana and All the Kalahari]]*His Eminence [[Dimitrios Savvas (ZaharengasHeimonetos) of IrinopolisNubia|Dimitrios Savvas (ZaharengasHeimonetos)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of IrinopolisNubia|IrinopolisNubia and Sudan and Eritrea]]*His Eminence [[Ignatios Ioannis (Tsaftaridis) of Zambia|Ioannis (MadenlidesTsaftaridis) ]], Archbishop of Central [[Archdiocese of Zambia|Zambia and Middle Africa]]*His Eminence [[Nikiforos (Mikragiannanitis) of Kinshasa|Ignatios Nikiforos (MadenlidesMikragiannanitis)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Kinshasa|Kinshasa and Central Africa]]*His Eminence [[Panteleimon (Arathymos) of Brazzaville|Panteleimon (Arathymos)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Brazzaville|Central Brazzaville and Gabon and Atlantic Africa]]*His Eminence [[Emmanuel Innocent (KiagiasByakatonda) of KhartoumBurundi|Emmanuel Innocent (KiagiasByakatonda)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Khartoum Burundi|Burundi and Rwanda and All SudanInner Africa]]*His Eminence [[Meletios (Koumanis) of Carthage|Khartoum and SudanMeletios (Koumanis)]], Exarch Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of All SudanCarthage|Carthage and North Africa]]*His Eminence [[Gregory Daniel (StergiouBiazis) of CameroonAksum|Gregory Daniel (StergiouBiazis)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of CameroonAksum|Aksum and All Ethiopia]]*His Eminence [[Theodosios (Tsitsivos) of Kananga|CameroonTheodosios (Tsitsivos)]], Exarch Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Central Kananga|Kananga and Equatorial Africa]]*His Eminence [[Damaskinos Petros II (PapandreouParginos) of Accra|Damaskinos Petros II (PapandreouParginos)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Accra|Accraand West Africa]] ===Auxiliary Archbishops===*His Eminence [[Athanasios (Kykkotis) of Cyrene|Athanasios (Kykkotis)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Cyrene|Cyrene and the Libyan Sea]]*His Eminence [[Theodoros (Dimitriou) of Heliopolis|Theodoros (Dimitriou)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Heliopolis|Heliopolis and Middle Egypt]]*His Eminence [[Ioakeim Narkissos (KontobasGammoh) of ZambiaNaucratis|Ioakeim Narkissos (KontobasGammoh)]], Archbishop of [[Diocese Archdiocese of ZambiaNaucratis|ZambiaNaucratis and the Egyptian Nile]]

<!-- *His Grace [[Savvas Chrysotomos (HeimonettosKaragounis) of Burundi Mozambique|Chrysotomos (Karagounis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Mozambique|Mozambique]] -->*His Grace [[Neophytos (Kongai) of Nyeri|Neophytos (Kongai)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Nyeri|Nyeri and RwandaMount Kenya]]*His Grace [[Agathonikos (Nikolaidis) of Arusha|Savvas Agathonikos (HeimonettosNikolaidis)]], Bishop of Burundi [[Diocese of Arusha|Arusha and RwandaCentral Tanzania]]*His Grace [[Sylvestros (Kisitu) of Gulu|Sylvestros (Kisitu)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Gulu|BurundiGulu and Eastern Uganda]]*His Grace [[Ignatios Photios (SennisHatziantoniou) of MadagascarMalawi|Ignatios Photios (SennisHatziantoniou)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of MadagascarMalawi|MadagascarMalawi]]*His Grace [[Meletios Prodromos (KamiloudesKatsoulis) of KatangaToliara|Meletios Prodromos (KamiloudesKatsoulis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of KatangaToliara|KatangaToliara and Southern Madagascar]]*His Grace [[Theodoros Markos (DimitriouTheodosis) of MozambiqueKisumu|Theodoros Markos (DimitriouTheodosis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of MozambiqueKisumu|MozambiqueKisumu and Western Kenya]]

===Auxiliary BishopsTitular Archbishops===*His Grace Athanasios Excellency [[Porphyrios (Skikos) of Cyrene*His Grace Gabriel of Mareotis*His Grace Spyridon of Kanopou*His Grace Nikodemos Thebes|Porphyrios (Skikos)]], Archbishop of Nitria*His Grace Gennadios [[Archdiocese of NilopolisThebes|Thebes]]

===Titular ArchbishopsBishops===*His Excellency Theoklitos Grace [[Nicholas (Boulaxis) of HelioupolisNitria|Nicholas (Boulaxis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Nitria|Nitria]]*His Excellency Philemon Grace [[Theodoros (Dridakis) of KarvasosBabylon|Theodoros (Dridakis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Babylon|Babylon]]*His Excellency Ioakeim Grace [[Germanos (Galanis) of Tamiathus*His Excellency Porfyrios Damietta|Germanos (Galanis)]], Bishop of Thivais*His Excellency Kyrillos [[Diocese of Nafkratis Damietta|Damietta]]

*His Eminence [[Panteleimon (Lampadarios) of Antinoe|Panteleimon (Lampadarios)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Antinoe|Antinoe]]*His Eminence [[Proterios (Pavlopoulos) of Diospolis|Proterios (Pavlopoulos)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Diospolis|Diospolis]]*His Grace Petros [[Vasilios (Varvelis) of Arsinoe|Vasilios (Varvelis)]], Bishop of Nikopolis[[Diocese of Arsinoe in Arcadia|Arsinoe]]

{| borderclass="1wikitable sortable" !class=unsortable|Archdiocese!!data-sort-type="number"|Established!!See!!Jurisdiction |- |[[Archdiocese of Carthage]] ||data-sort-value="0"|1st c.||Tunis||'''Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Memphis]] ||data-sort-value="300"|4th c.||Cairo||'''Egypt''' (Cairo) |- |[[Archdiocese of Pelusium]] ||data-sort-value="300"|4th c.||Port Said||'''Egypt''' (Port Said, Dakahlia, Damietta) |- |[[Archdiocese of Leontopolis]]||data-sort-value="300"|4th c.||Ismailia||'''Egypt''' (Ismailia, Sharqia, Suez) |- |[[Archdiocese of Aksum]] ||data-sort-value="300"|4th c.||Addis-Abeba||'''Ethiopia''', '''Djibouti''', '''Somalia''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Tripoli]] || 1866 || Tripoli ||'''Libya''' |- |[[Archdioceseof Ptolemais]] ||Established1908 || Minya ||'''Egypt''' (Giza, Minya, Sohag, Asyut, Faiyum, Qena, Beni Suef, Aswan, Luxor, Red Sea, New Valley) |- |[[Archdiocese of Nubia]] || 1908 || Khartoum ||'''Sudan''', '''South Sudan''', '''Eritrea''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Hermopolis]] || 1927 || Tanta ||'''Egypt''' (Arab-speaking communities) |- |[[Archdiocese of Johannesburg]]||1927 || Johannesburg ||'''South Africa''' (Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West) |- |[[Archdiocese of Nairobi]] || 1958 || Nairobi ||'''Kenya''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Kinshasa]] || 1958 || Kinshasa ||'''Congo''' (Kinshasa, North Kivu, South Kivu, Congo Central, Kwilu, Ituri, South Ubangi, Tshopo, Maniema, Kwango, Upper Uele, Mongala, Mai-Ndombe, Equator, North Ubangi, Tshuapa, Lower Uele) |- |[[Archdiocese of Cameroon]] || 1959 ||SeeYaounde ||Jurisdiction'''Cameroon''', '''Chad''', '''Central African Republic''', '''Equatorial Guinea''', '''Saint Thomas and Prince'''

|[[Archdiocese of MemphisZimbabwe]] ||??1964 ||HeliopolisHarare ||'''Zimbabwe''', Cairo - '''EgyptAngola''', '''Mozambique'''||

|[[Archdiocese of Leontopolisthe Cape of Good Hope]]||??1968||Ismailia Cape Town ||'''South Africa''' (KwaZulu- Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Free State, Northern Cape), '''Namibia''', '''Eswatini''', '''EgyptLesotho'''||, '''Saint Helen'''Ismailia, Suez'''Ascension''', Zagzik'''Tristan da Cunha'''

|[[Archdiocese of PilousionMwanza]] ||??1992 || Mwanza ||Port Said - '''EgyptTanzania'''||''Port Said(Mwanza, Mbeya, Kagera, Tabora, Morogoro, Kigoma, Dodoma, Mara, Geita, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Simiyu, Shinyanga, Manyara, Ruvuma, Singida, Rukwa, Iringa, MansouraNjombe, DamietteKatavi, Kantara''Songwe)

|[[Metropolis of Ptolemais|Archdiocese of PtolemaisKampala]] ||??1994 || Kampala ||Minia - '''Egypt''Uganda'||''Upper Egypt, Luxor, Aswan, Minia, Fayum, Asiut, Beni Suef''

|[[Archdiocese of ErmoupolisAccra]] ||??1997 || Accra ||Tanta – '''EgyptGhana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso'''||

|[[Archdiocese of TripolisAntananarivo]]||1866,<br>1959,<br>20041997 ||Tripoli - LibyaAntananarivo ||''Marsa Matrouh in Egypt'Madagascar''', '''Mayotte''', '''[[Libya]]The Comoros''', '''The Mascarenes''', '''Scattered Islands'''

|[[Archdiocese of CarthageNigeria]] ||19311997 ||Tunis - TunisiaLagos ||'''[[Tunisia]]Nigeria''', Algeria'''Niger''', Mauritania'''Benin''', [[Morocco]]'''Togo'''

|[[Archdiocese of CyreneIrinoupolis]]||??1999 || Dar es-Salaam ||'''Tanzania''' (Dar es-Salaam, Tanga, Mtwara, Pwani, Lindi, West Zanzibar, North Pemba, South Pemba, North Zanzibar, South Zanzibar), '''Seychelles'''

|[[Archdiocese of Khartoum and All Sudan|Archdiocese of KhartoumZambia]] ||??2001 ||Khartoum - SudanLusaka ||'''SudanZambia''', '''Malawi'''

|[[Archdiocese of AksumKatanga]] ||??2006 ||Addis-Abeba - EthiopiaLubumbashi ||'''EthiopiaCongo''' (Upper Katanga, [[Eritrea]]Tanganyika, [[Djibouti]]Upper Lomami, Somalia'''Lualaba)

|[[Archdiocese Diocese of KenyaMozambique]] ||??2006 ||Nairobi - KenyaMaputo ||'''KenyaMozambique'''

|[[Archdiocese of Kampala and All UgandaBurundi]] ||19592009 ||Kampala - [[Uganda]]Bujumbura ||'''UgandaBurundi''', '''Rwanda'''

|[[Archdiocese of AccraBotswana]] ||1997,<br>20092010 ||Accra - [[Ghana]]Gabarone ||'''Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, [[Sierra Leone]], Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, GambiaBotswana'''

|[[Archdiocese of NigeriaBrazzaville]]||1997,<br>20042010 ||Lagos - NigeriaBrazzaville ||'''NigeriaCongo''' (Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, Buenza, Mpumbu, Niadi, NigerPlateau, BeninKuvete, TogoLikuala, Lekumu, Kwilu, Sangha, West Kuvete), '''Gabon'''

|[[Archdiocese of CameroonGuinea]] ||??2010 ||Yaounde - CameroonConakry ||'''CameroonGuinea''', Chad'''Sierra Leone''', Central African Republic'''Liberia''', Gabon'''Guinea Bissau''', Equatorial Guinea'''Gambia''', Islands of '''St ThomasSenegal''' and , '''PrincipeCape Verde'''

|[[Archdiocese Diocese of Central AfricaKisumu]] ||??2015 ||Kinshasa - Democratic Republic of CongoKisumu ||'''Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo-Brazaville (Republic of the Congo)Kenya'''(Kisumu, Kakamega, Bungoma, Kisii, Homa Bay, Migori, Siaya, Busia, Nyamira, Vihiga)

|[[Diocese of KatangaNyeri]] ||2006,<br>20092015 ||Lubumbasi - CongoNyeri ||''Katanga Province in the Congo'Kenya'''(Nyeri, Kiambu, Muranga, Nyandarua, Kirinyaga)

|[[Diocese of Burundi and RwandaArusha]] ||20092016 ||Bujumbura in BurundiArusha ||'''Burundi, RwandaTanzania'''(Arusha, Morogoro, Dodoma, Kilimanjaro, ''a great area of the Eastern Congo''Manyara, Singida, Iringa)

|[[Archdiocese of MwanzaKananga]] ||??2018 ||Bukoba - TanzaniaKananga ||'''TanzaniaCongo''' (Kasai, Central Kasai, Eastern Kasai, Lomami, Sankuru)

|[[Archdiocese Diocese of IrinoupolisGoma]] ||19592018 ||Dar-es-Salaam - TanzaniaGoma ||'''Tanzania, Seychelle IslandsCongo'''(North Kivu, South Kivu, Maniema)

|[[Archdiocese Diocese of ZambiaGulu]] ||2001,<br>20092018 ||Lusaka - ZambiaGulu ||'''Zambia, MalawiUganda'''(Eastern, Northern)

|[[Archdiocese Diocese of ZimbabweKisangani]] ||??2018 ||Harare - ZimbabweKisangani ||'''ZimbabweCongo''' (Tshopo, [[Angola]]Ituri, MalawiUpper Uele, Botswana'''Lower Uele)

|[[Archdiocese Diocese of Johannesburg and PretoriaMalawi]] ||19272018 ||Johannesburg - South AfricaMalawi ||''(The areas from East Africa, the Equator down to the Cape of Good Hope)'Malawi'''

|[[Archdiocese Diocese of the Cape of Good HopeToliara]] ||19682018 ||Cape Town - South AfricaToliara ||'''Namibia, Swaziland, LesothoMadagascar''', and the following areas of the Cape (West and East): ''Port ElizabethAtsimo-Andrefana, East LondonUpper Matsiatra, BloemfonteinVatovavy-Fitovinany, WelkomAtsimo-Atsinanana, GeorgeAndroy, KnysnaAmoroni Mania, KimberleyAnosy, PietermaritzburgMenabe, all Natal''Ihorombe)

|[[Diocese of MozambiqueBukoba]] ||20062019 ||Maputo - MozambiqueBukoba ||'''MozambiqueTanzania'''(Kagera)

|[[Diocese of MadagascarEldoret]] ||19972019 ||Antananarivo - MadagascarEldoret ||'''Madagascar''', Islands of '''Mauritius, Reunion, Comores, MaillotKenya'''(Uasin Gishu)

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*[http://www.cnewa.org/ecc-bodypg-usdefault.aspx?eccpageIDID=14&IndexViewpagetypeID=toc 9&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1 Eastern Christian Churches: Patriarchate of Alexandria] by Ronald Roberson, a Roman Catholic priest and scholar*[http://markmarkou.sites.sch.gr/2021/alex2021.htm The Patriarchate of Alexandria in 2021] by Markos Markos