The Coptic Diocese of Faras is a titular

Titular (Catholicism)

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 diocese of the Coptic Orthodox Church formerly located at Pakhoras in Nobadia (modern Faras, in Sudan

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).

Despite Faras's submersion following the building of the Aswan High Dam, the see is still claimed by the Coptic church's Titular Bishop of the Great and Ancient Metropolis of Nubia, who is styled Bishop of Faras of Nobatia. The current ordinary

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 is Bishop Sarapamon (Serapis Amon).

Bishops of Pakhoras

• Aetios, c. 620
• Sarapion
• Vacant during invasion of Nobadia and Makouria by the Caliphate
  Caliphate
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• Pilatos, late 7th c.
• Paulos, a Monophysite, d. 709 or 719
• Mena, a Monophysite, d. 730
• Matthaios (Old Nubian: Maththaios), d. 31 May 766
• Ignatios, d. 23 January 802
• Ioannes I, d. 809 (?)
• Ioannes II
• Markos, c. 820
• Khael I, d. 827 (?)
• Thomas, a Monophysite, 827-862, d. 16 July 862
• Iesu I (Old Nubian: Iesou), d. 866

Metropolitans of Pakhoras

• Kyros, a Monophysite, d. 902
• Andreas, d. 903 (not a metropolitan bishop?)
• Kollutwos, a Monophysite, d. 13 August 923
• Stephanos, a Monophysite, d. 14 July 926
• Elias, a Monophysite, d. 6 August 952
• Aaron (Old Nubian: Aron), a Monophysite, d. 12 December 972
• Petros I, a Monophysite, d. 20 July 999

Bishops of Pakhoras

• Ioannes III, d. 21 September 1005
• Marianos, former archimandrite
  Archimandrite
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   of Puke, d. 11 November 1036
• Merkurios (Old Nubian: Merkourios), d. 1 July 1056
• Unknown
• Petros II, a Monophysite, d. 22 May 1062
• Georgios, a Monophysite, d. 14 August 1097
• Khael II, d. 5 May 1130
• Iesu II (Old Nubian: Iesou), d. 4 June 1175
• Unknown
• Tamer, d. 31 March 1193 (?)
• Unknown
• Timotheos, a Monophysite, "Bishop of Phrim and Pakhoras," resident at Primnis
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  , consecrated in 1372

Source

• Jakobielski, S. A Chronology of the Bishops of Faras.
• Michalowski, K. FARAS.