page_title: List of Coptic saints
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hierarchical_section_title: List of Coptic saints / A
caption_attribution_description: English: 20th Pope &amp; Patriarch of Alexandria
context_page_description: Early church historians, writers, and fathers testified to the numerous Copt martyrs. Tertullian, 3rd century North African lawyer wrote "If the martyrs of the whole world were put on one arm of the balance and the martyrs of Egypt on the other, the balance will tilt in favor of the Copts." Despite periods of martyrdom and persecution the number of believers continued to grow and the lives of the martyrs inspired many to the Christian faith.
  The following is a list of saints commemorated by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. The majority of saints are from Egypt with the majority venerated in all of Christianity.
context_section_description: Aaron, the high priest, and brother of Moses
  Ababius, monk of Scetes
  Abadiu, bishop and martyr of Ansena
  Abakir, John, the 3 Virgins and their Mother, martyrs from Alexandria
  Abakragoun, martyr
  Abāmūn of Tarnūt, martyr
  Abāmūn of Tukh, martyr
  Abanoub, the child martyr
  Abaskhayroun, the soldier, martyr from Qallin
  Abdel Messih El-Habashi, Ethiopian monk of the Paromeos Monastery
  Abdel Messih El-Makari, 20th-century monk of the Monastery of St. Marcarius
  Abib and Apollo, 4th-century monks from Akhmim
  Abraam, abbot of El-Muharraq Monastery, bishop of Fayoum and Giza, noted for his devotion to the poor
  Abraam Anba Samuel, abbot of the Monastery of St. Thomas the Anchorite
  Abraam and George, 7th-century monks of the Monastery of St. Marcarius
  Abraham, 4th-century monk and hermit of Minuf
  Abraham, 4th-century monk of Scetes
  Abraham, 6th-century abbot of the Monastery of St. Phoibammon, and 14th bishop of Hermonthis
  Abraham of Farshut, 6th-century abbot
  Abraham, the 62nd Pope of Alexandria
  Abraham, the poor, the simple, monk
  Abraham, the prophet
  Abratacus (feast day April 16)
  Acacius, bishop of Jerusalem
  Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople
  Achillas, 4th-5th century monk
  Achillas, the 18th Pope of Alexandria
  Aesculapius and Dioscorus, 4th-century ascetes and martyrs of Akhmim
  Agabus, one of the seventy disciples
  Agatho, the 39th Pope of Alexandria
  Agathon, Peter, John, Amun, Amuna & their mother Rebecca, 4th century martyrs from Qus
  Agathon, the stylite spent ten years in Scetes and fifty years in solitude on a pillar
  Agrippinus, the 10th Pope of Alexandria
  Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem
  Alexander I, the 19th Pope of Alexandria
  Alexander II, the 43rd Pope of Alexandria
  Ambrose, theologian and confessor
  Ammonius, bishop of Esna, martyr
  Ammonius, founder of the Monastery of the Martyrs
  Ammonius of Kellia, disciple of St. Pambo of Scetes
  Amos, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  Amun, anchorite and bishop from Scetes
  Anasimon, the anchorite queen
  Anastasia, martyr
  Anastasia the Patrician
  Anastasius, the 36th Pope of Alexandria
  Andrew, the apostle and brother of St. Peter
  Andrianus, the martyr
  Andronicus, the 37th Pope of Alexandria
  Anianus, the 2nd Pope of Alexandria
  Anne (Hannah), the mother of the Theotokos
  Anthony the Great, father of monasticism
  Apakir
  Apollonia, virgin martyr
  Apollo of Bawit, native of Akhmim, founder of the Monastery of St. Apollo at Bawit
  Apollos
  Apraxios, native of Upper Egypt, became a monk at twenty and lived until seventy
  Archiledes
  Ari, priest of Shatanouf
  Arianus, Governor of Ansena who repented after martyring many Christians
  Aristobulus, one of the Seventy Apostles
  Arsenius, slave of St. Sousnyous
  Arsenius, tutor of Arcadius & Honorius, the sons of Emperor Theodosius the Great
  Athanasius, metropolitan of Beni Suef and El-Bahnasa
  Athanasius I, the Apostolic, the 20th Pope of Alexandria
  Athanasius II, the 28th Pope of Alexandria
  Athanasius III, the 76th Pope of Alexandria
  Athanasius and his sister Irene, martyrs
  Athenagoras, the Athenian, apologist, and philosopher
  Avilius, the 3rd Pope of Alexandria
  Awgin, father of Monasticism in Mesopotamia
caption: St. Athanasius the Apostolic
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