Coptic Orthodox Metropolitan Kyrillos of Milano Enters Eternal Rest

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Bishop Youssef – August 2017

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Early in the morning of Monday the fourteenth of August 2017, at the age of sixty five, quietly and in the same quiet manner in which he had conducted all his life, Metropolitan Kyrillos of Milan, left this transient earth to rest in the bosom of his beloved Savior whom he served all his life.

This man of God was born in Suhag on the fifteenth of October 1952 by the name of Haleem Nashed Athanasius. He studied engineering and graduated in 1977. He joined the Monastery St Mary in Baramos and received the garb of monasticism in 1979. Monk Kyrillos was ordained priest on the 27th of February 1980 and later hegomen on the 25th of May,1981. On the twenty second of June1986, he was ordained bishop to assist in serving in the province of El Menia where he did a lot of work in the distant villages and among the youths.

As part of realizing the vision of late Pope Shenouda to extend the Coptic Church services in the immigration lands, Bishop Kyrillos was chosen to be the first Coptic bishop to serve in Italy where he also became the overseer of the monastery of St. Shenouda the Archimandrite. During the first visit of Pope Tawadros to Italy, in January 2013, Bishop Kyrillos was chosen as the papal representative in Europe and on the second of February 2016, he received the rank of metropolitan.

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