Father Rafiq Gereish, spokesman for the Catholic Church in Egypt, announced that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, issued a decree number 645 for the year 2017 appointing Patriarch Yousef al-Abssi as a Roman Catholic Patriarch.
Joseph Abdullah Al-Absi was born in 1946 in Levant, the legal representative of the Roman Catholic community in the Arab Republic of Egypt, and a President’s decision to grant him the citizenship of the Arab Republic of Egypt.