Antonios Naguib

Antonios Naguib (born 7 March 1935) is the Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria since 30 March 2006.

From 1953 to 1958, he studied at the interritual seminary of Maadi, Cairo and, later, at the Pontifical Urbanian College, Rome. He then went back to Egypt and was ordained to the Coptic Catholic priesthood in 1960. After being pastor for a year at Fikryak, Minya, he returned to Rome and obtained a licentiate in theology in 1962 and in scripture in 1964. He was Professor of Sacred Scripture in the Maadi seminary from 1964. He worked with group of Protestant and Orthodox specialists perparing an Arabic translation of the Bible.

He became Bishop of Minya, Egypt in 1977, a post he held until he resigned in 2002. On 30 March 2006 he was elected Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, and received ecclesiastical communion from Pope Benedict XVI on 7 April 2006. Pope Benedict named him relator general (recording secretary) of the October 2010 special assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East, held at the Vatican and, while the assembly was still in session, announced that Naguib would be made a cardinal-bishop at the consistory of 20 November 2010, when he would become the only Eastern Catholic Patriarch eligible to vote in a papal conclave.