[4] The current Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria is Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, who replaced Antonios Naguib in 2013.

[6] In the 17th century, at the behest of Pope Urban VIII, Catholic missionaries (primarily Franciscans) started to come to Egypt.

[6] Although the mission in Cairo initially faced setbacks, tensions with the local Coptic priesthood were minimized with the arrival of Capuchin priest Agathangelo of Vendome to the city in 1633.

[6] Agathangelo would later be hanged as a martyr in Ethiopia by order of the Ethiopian king in 1638,[7] and the mission in Cairo would start to decline.

[9] In 1781, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV as vicar apostolic of the fewer than 2,000 Egyptian Coptic Catholics.

[10] The Coptic Catholic Church sui juris comprises a single ecclesiastical province, covering Egypt alone.

The Patriarch is the sole metropolitan archbishop, retaining the ancient title Alexandria but his actual seat is in Egypt's modern capital Cairo.