After completing his secondary education in 1940, he travelled to Cairo and met with Archdeacon Habib Girgis, seeking to be enrolled in the Coptic Theological and Clerical College.
[1][2] Following his graduation, he worked as a Christian Religious Education teacher in Rizkallah al-Mashriqi Secondary School in Girga, Sohag, Egypt.
During his years in Girga, he helped establish the Rizkallah al-Mashriqi Primary School, and was appointed its Principal.
[1][2] During his reign, communities of Coptic expatriates began popping up in the newly developing countries of the Arabian Gulf, such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait.
[2] During the Easter Vigil in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on April 25, 1970, the Israeli government sent military forces to change the locks of the monastery to enable the Ethiopian monks to take control of it.
[2] He remained ill in the hospital, falling in and out of consciousness, and with minimal control over his body, until his death early in the morning on Sunday October 13, 1991.
Upon his death, he was transported to Cairo, where the funerary rites were prayed upon him by Pope Shenouda III, in the Virgin Mary Cathedral, Zeitoun.
He was buried in a specially prepared tomb in the Monastery of Saint Anthony, in the Red Sea Wilderness.