He also served as a deacon in the Church of Saint George, in Agouza, and was the Secretary of Service for northern and western Giza.
He did not serve in Switzerland for a long time, as in 1991, Pope Shenouda III recalled him to Cairo, and elevated him to the dignity of Hegumen, in preparation for his consecration as Metropolitan Archbishop of Jerusalem.
[2] During his time as Metropolitan of Jerusalem, he undertook numerous restorations of the Coptic possessions there, and also built more service buildings such as the new Antonine College campus.
Funerary rites were carried out on November 28, 2015, by Pope Tawadros II, and the bishops and metropolitans of the Holy Synod, and he was buried in Jerusalem, as he had directed in his last will and testament.
Coptic Church spokesmen, later clarified that the Coptic Church has not changed its position, and that pilgrimages are still banned, explaining that the Pope's visit was an exception made strictly for the purpose of fulfilling Metropolitan Abraham II's last will and testament, in which he requested to be buried in Jerusalem.