* 1902 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria ( d. 1971 )

* Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, reigned 1959 – 1971

In 1959, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was granted its first own Patriarch by Pope Cyril VI.

In 1959, Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria crowned Abuna Basilios as the first Patriarch of Ethiopia.

Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria | Pope Cyril VI, the 116th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria | Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist ( 1959 – 1971 ).

* August 2 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch ( d. 1971 )

* March 9 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch ( b. 1902 )

In 1962, Pope Cyril VI summoned Fr.

Following the death of Pope Cyril VI on 9 March 1971, the selection process resulted in Bishop Shenouda's becoming the new Pope.

Antonios el-Syriani was among the candidates nominated for the papal throne in 1959, but at that time, Pope Cyril VI was chosen for the post.

On 30 September 1962, Pope Cyril VI appointed him to the bishopric of Christian Education and as Dean of the Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary, and renamed him Shenouda in honour of the most renowned scholar and writer in Coptic, Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite ( lived 347 / 348 – 465 / 466 ).

Bishop Shenouda was suspended in 1966 by Pope Cyril VI, essentially because of " campaigns for change " instigated by Shenouda and his students.

This conflict between Pope Cyril VI and Bishop Shenouda was later resolved.

He was enthroned as Pope Shenouda III, the 117th Pope of Alexandria and patriarch of the See of St. Mark on 14 November 1971, nearly nine months after the death of Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria.

In 1724, Cyril VI was elected Greek Patriarch of Antioch.

* The Melkite versus the Greek Orthodox Patriarchs-The ( Latin ) Catholic Church and the Catholic Byzantine Churches together recognize that Cyril VI was legally elected Patriarch in 1724 and that the current Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch was a later creation to serve the faithful that did not choose to enter full communion with Rome.

St. Severus of Ravenna, St. Ambrose of Milan, María de Ágreda, and St. Martin de Porres, María de León Bello y Delgado, as well as Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria.

Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria also called Kyrillos VI, born Azer Youssef Atta ( 2 August 1902 – 9 March 1971 ), was the Pope and Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ( 10 May 1959-9 March 1971 ).

Pope Cyril VI was born in Damanhour, Egypt, into a Coptic Orthodox family.

In accordance with the old Coptic church tradition, Pope Cyril VI was the only monk in the 20th century to be chosen for papacy without having been a bishop / Metropolitan first.

The fourth defining moment was the election of Cyril VI Tanas, in 1724, by the Melkite bishops of Syria as the new Patriarch of Antioch.

In 1724, Cyril VI ( Seraphim Tanas ) was elected in Damascus by the Synod as Patriarch of Antioch.

* Cyril VI Tanas, Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church

* Cyril V Zaim, Melkite patriarch of Antioch died 1720

* Cyril VII Siaj, Melkite patriarch of Antioch 1794 – 1796

* Cyril VIII Jaha, Melkite patriarch of Antioch 1902 – 1916

* Cyril IX Moghabghab, Melkite patriarch of Antioch 1925 – 1946

) Jeremias and Sylvester began a five year campaign of persecution against Cyril and the Melkite faithful who supported him, enforced by Ottoman Turkish troops.

* Patriarch Cyril III of Constantinople, patriarch in 1652 and 1654

* Patriarch Cyril V of Constantinople, patriarch in 1748 – 1757

* Patriarch Cyril VII of Constantinople, patriarch in 1855 – 1860

* Cyril of Alexandria, patriarch and theologian ( d. 444 )

* Having driven out the Jews, Alexandria's new patriarch, Cyril, has instigated the mob after taking offense at Hypatia's scientific rationalism.

* Cyril of Alexandria, patriarch and theologian

Cyril, the patriarch of Alexandria, convinced the city's governor to expel the Jews from the city in 415 with the aid of the mob, in response to the Jews ' alleged nighttime massacre of many Christians.

On October 1633, Cyril Contari, Metropolitan of Aleppo in the Orthodox Church, was made the patriarch after promising to pay the Ottoman central authority 50, 000 dollars.

Athos was normally open only to members of the Orthodox church, but thanks to a special dispensation from the Patriarch of Constantinople Cyril Lucaris, Greaves would have had access ; but the execution of the patriarch by strangulation in June 1638 for treason against Sultan Murad IV prevented his journey.

Cyril, 67th patriarch, sent Severus as bishop, with orders to put down the practice of polygamy and to enforce observance of canonical consecration for all churches.

After the Council of Ephesus had condemned Nestorianism, there remained a conflict between Patriarchs John of Antioch and Cyril of Alexandria.

Cyril is well-known due to his dispute with Nestorius and his supporter Patriarch John of Antioch, whom Cyril excluded from the Council of Ephesus for arriving late.

Cyril gained an opportunity to restore Alexandria's pre-eminence over both Antioch and Constantinople when an Antiochine priest who was in Constantinople at Nestorius ' behest began to preach against calling Mary the " Mother of God ".

Ephesus was friendly to Cyril, Emperor Theodosius convoked Council of Ephesus ( in 431 ) before Nestorius's supporters from Antioch and Syria had arrived and thus Nestorius refused to attend when summoned.

However, when John of Antioch and the other pro-Nestorius bishops finally reached Ephesus, they assembled their own Council, condemned Cyril for heresy, deposed him from his see, and labelled him as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.

* Formula of Reunion: In Brief ( A summation of the reunion between Cyril and John of Antioch )

* The ' Formula of Reunion ' between Cyril and John of Antioch

The Emperor was a convinced Miaphysite, following the teachings of Cyril of Alexandria and Severus of Antioch who taught " One Incarnate Nature of Christ " in an undivided union of the Divine and human natures, but his ecclesiastical policy was moderate ; he endeavoured to maintain the principle of the Henotikon of Zeno and the peace of the church.

When John of Antioch and his Syrian bishops finally reached Ephesus five days after the council, they met with Candidian who informed them that Cyril had begun a council without them and had ratified Celestine's conviction of Nestorius as a heretic.

At the fourth session, Cyril and Memnon presented a formal protest against John of Antioch for convening a separate conciliabulum.

* Pope Sixtus III helps to settle a Christological dispute between the patriarchs Cyril of Alexandria and John of Antioch that has continued since the First Council of Ephesus, two years ago.

Cyril took charge of the First Council of Ephesus in 431, opening debate before the long-overdue contingent of Eastern bishops from Antioch arrived.

In 1729, Pope Benedict XIII recognized Cyril as the Eastern Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and welcomed him and his followers into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.

His first care was the funeral of his predecessor, and he then sent to both Patriarchs Cyril of Alexandria and John of Antioch the usual synodical letters announcing his appointment, both of whom approved of it.

A similar declaration was reached between the Oriental Orthodox and the Eastern Orthodox churches in the 1990s in Geneva, in which both Oriental and Eastern Orthodox churches agreed in condemning the Nestorian and Eutychian heresies and in rejecting interpretations of Councils which do not fully agree with the Horos of the Third Ecumenical Council and the letter ( 433 ) of Cyril of Alexandria to John of Antioch.

These include sources relating to Christianity in Persia, monkish histories, the Vita Martini of Sulpicius Severus, the works of Hilarius, logoi of Eustathius of Antioch, the letter of Cyril of Jerusalem to Constantius concerning the miraculous vision of the cross, and Palladius.