Habib Girgis

Habib Girgis

Archdeacon Habib Qozman Girgis (died 21 August 1951) was a modern-day dean of the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Habib Girgis (also Girguis, Guirguis, etc.; حبيب جرجس Arabic for "Beloved" George) was born in Cairo in 1876.

He was the very first student for the modern-day Theological School, and was thus appointed to succeed his predecessor, Youssef Bey Mankarious, in the year 1918, as the second dean of the renewed center of theology.

Read more about Habib Girgis:  Early Work, Dean of The Seminary