Biography
He was born in August, 1899 in Mallawi in Upper Egypt and died on Friday May 16, 1930, at the age of 30. Born in a Coptic Orthodox family, his father was also a priest.
Abouna is his informative title meaning our father in Egyptian Arabic which is used among Copts to call any Priest in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and until the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it could be used to call a Meropolitan, a Bishop or even the Pope by the word Abouya meaning my father. This has been replaced now by the word sayedna meaning our master for The Pope and any other Bishop.
Abouna Menassa was a deacon, then ordinated as a priest on January 25, 1925, of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Mallawi, El Minya.
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