Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
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Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (Coptic
Coptic language
Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...

: ; ; commonly , elˈbɑːbɑ ʃ(e)ˈnuːdæ) (born Nazeer Gayed nɑˈzˤiːɾ ˈɡæjjed, on 3 August 1923) is the 117th Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. He is the head of The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria.

A graduate of Cairo University
Cairo University
Cairo University is a public university located in Giza, Egypt.The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought...

 and the Coptic Orthodox Seminary, Nazeer Gayed became a monk under the name Fr.
 
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