Pope Zacharias of Alexandria, was the 64th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. He was a native of Alexandria and was an ordained priest there. He was chaste and gentle in disposition. According to

Abu al-Makarim Abu l-Makārim Saʿdullāh ibn Jirjis ibn Masʿūd ( ar, ابو المكارم سعد الله بن جرجس بن مسعود) (d.1208) was a priest of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria in the thirteenth century. Abu al-Makarim is best known ...

, writing in the last quarter of the twelfth century, Zacharias was the last Patriarch of Alexandria to send letters to the rulers of

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and

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, having been forbidden to do so by the

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Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Nevertheless, if the Caliph or his vizier received a letter from either ruler, it remained the duty of the Patriarch to write a reply.B.T.A. Evetts (translator), ''The Churches and Monasteries of Egypt and Some Neighboring Countries attributed to Abu Salih, the Armenian'', with added notes by Alfred J. Butler (Oxford, 1895), p. 290 Pope Zacharias was buried in Saint Mary Church (Babylon Al-Darag) in

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