Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark
Papacy began
14 September 743
Papacy ended
12 March 767
Predecessor
Theodore I
Successor
Mina I
Personal details
Born
Egypt
Died
12 March 767
Buried
Saint Mark's Church
Nationality
Egyptian
Denomination
Coptic Orthodox Christian
Residence
Saint Mark's Church
Sainthood
Feast day
12 March (16 Baramhat in the Coptic calendar)
Michael I (or Khaʾil I) was the 46th Coptic Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria from 743 to 767.
Bishop Moses of Awsim was instrumental in arranging the election of Michael as patriarch in a compromise between northern and southern factions.[1]
In 748, when Pope Michael was thrown into prison by Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ibn Musa ibn Nusayr, King Kyriakos of Makuria marched north into Egypt at the head of an army said to number 100,000 men to free the Pope of Alexandria. Once the Makurian army reached Egypt, the Pope was released from prison.[2]
In 749, the governor of Egypt, Hawthara ibn Suhayl, held Michael hostage in Rosetta in an effort to force the rebelling Bashmurites to surrender. They instead sacked the city.[3]
Pope Michael opposed the enthroning of the Bishop Isaac as a Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch after the death of Iwanis I because he was already the bishop of the eparchy of Harran.[4]
^Mark N. Swanson (2010), The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt (641–1517), Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, p. 20.
^Derek A. Welsby, The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia (London, 2002), p. 73; B. T. A. Evetts (translator), The Churches and Monasteries of Egypt and Some Neighboring Countries attributed to Abu Salih, the Armenian, with added notes by Alfred J. Butler (Oxford, 1895), pp. 267ff
^Mounir Megally (1991), "Bashmuric Revolts", in Aziz Suryal Atiya (ed.), The Coptic Encyclopedia, vol. 2, New York: Macmillan Publishers, cols. 349b–351b.
^"القوانين الكنسية لانتخاب بابا الإسكندرية... والأنبا شنودة". Archived from the original on 2007-02-18.
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