Bishop Youssef Aboul El Kher

Bishop Emeritus of Sohag (Coptic), Egypt

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Sep 1943		Born
17 Sep 1972	28.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Luqsor {Tebe} (Coptic), Egypt
13 Sep 1981	37.9	Incardinated	Priest of Sohag (Coptic), Egypt
5 Aug 2003	59.8	Selected	Bishop of Sohag (Coptic), Egypt
9 Aug 2003	59.8	Confirmed	Bishop of Sohag (Coptic), Egypt
13 Nov 2003	60.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sohag (Coptic), Egypt
14 Jun 2019	75.7	Retired	Bishop of Sohag (Coptic), Egypt

MicroData Summary
Youssef Aboul El Kher
Bishop Youssef Aboul El Kher
(born 23 Sep 1943)
Bishop Emeritus of Sohag

Ad Limina - February 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Qum-Gharib, Eparchy of Luqsor {Tebe} (Coptic)
Ordained Priest Church, Qum-Gharib, Eparchy of Luqsor {Tebe} (Coptic)
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Sohag, Eparchy of Sohag (Coptic)

Please contact the Bishop through the Eparchy of Sohag (Coptic).

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Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Stéphanos II (Andraos) Ghattas, C.M. †
Bishop of Luqsor {Tebe} (Coptic)
Principal Consecrator:
Stéphanos II (Andraos) Cardinal Ghattas, C.M. †
Patriarch of Alexandria {Alessandria} (Coptic)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Morkos Hakim, O.F.M. †
Bishop Emeritus of Sohag (Coptic)
Bishop Antonios Naguib †
Bishop Emeritus of Minya {Ermopoli Maggiore; Minieh} (Coptic)
Bishop Youhanna Kamal Golta †
Titular Bishop of Andropolis
Bishop Andraos Salama †
Bishop of Guizeh (Coptic)
Bishop Kyrillos Kamal William Samaan †
Bishop of Assiut {Lycopolis} (Coptic)
Bishop Youhannes Ezzat Zakaria Badir †
Bishop of Luqsor {Tebe} (Coptic)
Bishop Makarios Tewfik
Bishop of Ismayliah (Coptic)
Bishop Ibrahim Isaac Sedrak (Sidrak)
Bishop of Minya {Ermopoli Maggiore; Minieh} (Coptic)
Bishop Antonios Aziz Mina
Titular Bishop of Mareotes

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Stéphanos II (Andraos) Cardinal Ghattas, C.M. † (1967)
Patriarch of Alexandria {Alessandria} (Coptic)
Stephanos I Cardinal Sidarouss, C.M. † (1948)
Patriarch of Alexandria {Alessandria} (Coptic)
Patriarch Marco II Khouzam † (1926)
Patriarch of Alexandria {Alessandria} (Coptic)
Archbishop Andrea Cassulo † (1914)
Titular Archbishop of Leontopolis in Augustamnica
Archbishop Alfonso Maria Mistrangelo, Sch. P. † (1893)
Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Boutros Kamal Fahim Awad Hanna (2006)
Bishop Emmanuel (Khaled Ayad) Bishay (2016)
Bishop Toma Adly Zaki (2018)
Bishop Basilios Fawzy Al-Dabe (2019)
Bishop Hani Nassif Wasef Bakhoum Kiroulos (2019)
Bishop Daniel Lotfy Khella (2019)
Bishop Beshara (Bechara) Goda (Guida Matarana), O.F.M. (2020)
Bishop Thomas Halim Habib (2021)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Qum-Gharib, Eparchy of Luqsor {Tebe} (Coptic)
Ordained Priest	Church, Qum-Gharib, Eparchy of Luqsor {Tebe} (Coptic)
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Sohag, Eparchy of Sohag (Coptic)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1002166

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 173, Number 14,480
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 197, Deceased Cardinals (back)
opd/loc: CB, 1 Jun 2026
c1: CB, 6 Jun 2026

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