History
Prior to the establishment of the Apostolic prefecture, the four provinces contained 1000 Catholics belonging to different rites. The prefecture was erected by Propaganda Fide on 17 March, 1887. In 1888 the Rev. Augustin Duret, of the Lyons Society for African Missions, was appointed first prefect Apostolic and the prefecture confided to the care of this society.
It had at first only two missionary posts, one at Tantah and the other at Zagazig, but a new post was founded at Zifteh in 1887 and another at Mahalla-el-Kebir in 1891. About this time the Egyptian capital Cairo, which had already outgrown its former limits, developed considerably on the north, and populous quarters grew up within the Prefecture of the Delta. For the convenience of resident Catholics, a Latin parish was formed in the Choubra quarter in 1894 and given to the Fathers of the Society for African Missions; in 1896 another Latin parish under the same direction was established at Zeitoun for the outlying districts of Koubbeh, Zeitoun and Matarieh.
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