Kyrillos Makarios also written as Cyrillus Macaire (in

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كيرلس مقار ) (born 9 February 1867 - died 18 May 1921) was a leader of the

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. He served as

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from 1899 to 1908 when he resigned. Kyrillos Makarios was born in Scenaineh in 1867 and was ordained a priest in 1891. He was appointed as Apostolic Vicar of the Coptic Catholic Church on 15 March 1895 and was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Philippi and ordained on the position on 17 April 1895. He headed a Coptic Catholic delegation in September 1895 to the Vatican to meet with

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after the latter's encyclical dated 11 June 1895 to the Egyptian Catholic Church followers. The delegation requested the reinstatement of the seat of the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate. The papal decision followed quickly on 26 November 1895 reestablishing the patriarchal seat, assigning two eparchies, namely The Eparchy of Hermopolis (El Minia) to be headed by Bishop Maximus Sedfawi and Eparchy of Taybeh (Luxor) to be headed by Bishop Ignatius Barazi, and confirmed Kyrillos Makarios as Apostolic Vicar. In 1898, he held the First Alexandria Council for the Catholic Copts heading as vicar. He served as Vicar until 19 June 1899 when he was appointed as Patriarch of Alexandria as the first patriarch of the reinstated Coptic Catholic Patriarchate and was officially ordained as Patriarch in July 1899. He was instrumental in organizing the dioceses and the churches. His successes however prompted much opposition, upon which he tended his resignation from the seat and retreated to

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. After his resignation, the Patriarchal seat remained vacant from 1908 until 1947. During this period,

Maximos Sedfaoui Maximos Sedfaoui (17 August 1863 – 27 February 1925) was the locum tenens and Apostolic Administrator (مدبّر رسولي) of the Coptic Catholic Church after the resignation of Patriarch Kyrillos Makarios in 1908. The Patriarch's exclusion an ...

served as

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of the Coptic Catholic Church (1908–1925) with Kyrillos Makarios remaining as ''Patriarch Emeritus'' (a titular position) until his death on 18 May 1921. After the death of Sedfaoui, Markos Khouzam became locum tenens of the Coptic Catholic Church (1927–1947) until his ordination as Patriarch of Alexandria

Markos II Khouzam Markos II Khouzam in Arabic مرقس الثاني خزام (born 16 March 1888 - died 2 February 1958) was a leader of the Coptic Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic ''sui juris'' particular church of the Catholic Church. He served as Patriarch ...

in 1947.

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