List of Coptic saints


Early church historians, writers, and fathers testified to the numerous Copt martyrs. Tertullian, a 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."
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.

Alphabetical list of Christian Saints in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

  • Aaron ⲁⲁⲣⲟⲛ, the high priest, and brother of Moses ⲙⲱⲩⲥⲏⲥ
  • Ababius, monk of Scetes
  • Abadiu, bishop and martyr of Ansena
  • Abakir ⲁⲡⲁ ⲕⲩⲣ, John, the 3 Virgins and their Mother, martyrs from Alexandria
  • Abakragoun ⲁⲡⲁ ⲕⲣⲁⲅⲱⲛ, martyr
  • Abāmūn of Tarnūt, martyr
  • Abāmūn of Tukh ⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ, martyr
  • Abanoub ⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲛⲟⲩⲃ, the child martyr
  • Abanoub ⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲛⲟⲩⲃ, confessor
  • Abanoub ⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲛⲟⲩⲃ of The Golden Fan
  • Abaskhayroun ⲁⲡⲁ ⲥⲭⲩⲣⲟⲛ, the soldier, martyr from Qallin
  • Abdel Messih El-Habashi Eritrean 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 ⲁⲃⲣⲁⲁⲙ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲥⲁⲙⲟⲩⲏⲗ, abbot of the Monastery of St. Thomas the Anchorite
  • Abraam and George ⲁⲃⲣⲁⲁⲙ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ, 7th-century monks of the Monastery of St. Marcarius
  • Abraham ⲁⲃⲣⲁⲁⲙ, 4th-century monk and hermit of Minuf
  • Abraham, 4th-century monk of Scetes
  • Abraham, ⲁⲃⲣⲁⲁⲙ 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
  • 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,. ⲡⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲅⲁⲑⲟⲥ the 39th Pope of Alexandria
  • Agathon, Peter, John, Amun, Amuna & their mother Rebecca, 4th-century martyrs from Qus
  • Agathon, the stylite ⲁⲅⲁⲑⲟⲛ ⲡⲓⲥⲧⲩⲗⲗⲁⲧⲓⲥ 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 ⲁⲡⲁ ⲡⲁⲙⲃⲱ of Scetes
  • Amos, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • Amun,ⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ anchorite and bishop from Scetes
  • Anna Simone, the anchoress 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, the mother of the Theotokos
  • Anthony the Great, ⲡⲓⲛⲓϣϯ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲛⲧⲱⲛⲓⲟⲥ father of monasticism
  • Apakir
  • Apali, martyr and son of St. Justus and St. Theoclia
  • 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 and 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
  • Avghanistos, martyr and soldier of The Martyr St. Arianus The Governor of Ansena
  • Avilius, the 3rd Pope of Alexandria
  • Awgin, father of Monasticism in Mesopotamia

    B

  • Babnuda, the anchorite, martyr
  • Bagoosh and his mother, martyrs
  • Balamon, the anchorite
  • Barbara and Juliana, martyrs
  • Barsanuphius, monk, martyr during the Islamic occupation of Egypt
  • Barsauma, the Father of Ascetism
  • Barnabas, one of the seventy apostles
  • Bartholomew, one of the twelve apostles
  • Bashnouna, monk, martyr during the Islamic occupation of Egypt in 1164
  • Basil, bishop of Caesarea
  • Basilides and Potamiana, martyrs
  • Basilissa, the child martyr
  • Basilius, metropolitan of Jerusalem
  • Basin and her Children
  • Benjamin I, the 38th Pope of Alexandria
  • Benjamin II, the 82nd Pope of Alexandria
  • Bessarion, disciple of St. Anthony the Great and later St. Macarius the Great
  • Bisada, the priest, martyr
  • Bishoy Kamel, the hegumen
  • Butamina, the chaste virgin, martyr

    C

  • Candidus, commander of the Theban Legion
  • Cassius and Florentius, members of the Theban Legion
  • Catherine of Alexandria, virgin martyr
  • Celadion, the 9th Pope of Alexandria
  • Chiaffredo, member of the Theban Legion
  • Christodoulos, the 66th Pope of Alexandria
  • Chrysanthus and Daria, martyrs
  • Clement of Alexandria, the 5th Dean of Catechetical School of Alexandria
  • Cleopas, the apostle and bishop of Jerusalem
  • Cleopatra
  • Colluthus, of Antinoöpolis, martyr
  • Constantine, the Emperor of the Roman Empire
  • Cosmas I, the 44th Pope of Alexandria
  • Cosmas II, the 54th Pope of Alexandria
  • Cosmas III, the 58th Pope of Alexandria
  • Cosmas and Damian, martyrs
  • Cyprian and Justina, martyrs
  • Cyracuse and Julietta
  • Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem
  • Cyril I, the 24th Pope of Alexandria
  • Cyril II, the 67th Pope of Alexandria
  • Cyril III, the 75th Pope of Alexandria
  • Cyril IV, the 110th Pope of Alexandria
  • Cyril V, the 112th Pope of Alexandria
  • Cyril VI, the 116th Pope of Alexandria
  • Cyrus and John, unmercenary physicians, wonderworkers, martyrs

    D

  • Dabamon
  • Damian, the 35th Pope of Alexandria
  • Daniel, the hegumen of Scetes during the 6th-century
  • Daniel, the prophet
  • Dasya, the soldier, 3rd-century martyr from Tanda
  • David, the prophet and king
  • Demetrius I, the 12th Pope of Alexandria
  • Demetrius II, the 111th Pope of Alexandria
  • Demiana and the 40 Virgins,
  • Didymus the Blind, the 15th Dean of Catechetical School of Alexandria
  • Dionysius, the 14th Pope of Alexandria
  • Dioscorus I, the 25th Pope of Alexandria
  • Dioscorus II, the 31st Pope of Alexandria
  • Dorothea of Alexandria, virgin martyr

    E

  • Elias and four companions, martyrs
  • Elijah, the prophet
  • Elisa, the anchorite
  • Elisha, the prophet
  • Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist
  • Ephrem the Syriac
  • Epimachus of Pelusium, martyr
  • Epiphanius of Salamis, bishop of Cyprus, spent most of his monastic life in Egypt
  • Erastus, the apostle
  • Esther, Queen of Persia
  • Esther of Akhmim, martyr
  • Eudokia, martyr
  • Eugenius, Eugander, and Abilandius
  • Eumenes, the 7th Pope of Alexandria
  • Euphrasia, the virgin, moved to Egypt to join a Monastery of Nuns near Alexandria
  • Eusebius, the historian, bishop of Caesarea
  • Eusignius, the soldier, martyr
  • Eutychus, the disciple of St. John the Evangelist
  • Ezekiel, the prophet
  • Ezekiel, the anchorite, disciple St. Paul of Tamouh

    F

  • Faltaous, martyr
  • Faltaous El-Souriani, the desert eagle, 21st-century monk
  • Fana, the hermit, founder of Monastery of Saint Fana
  • Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria, martyrs
  • Febronia, the ascetic, virgin, martyr
  • Felix the Pope of Rome
  • Felix and Regula, members of the Theban Legion
  • Freig, 15th-century Egyptian

    G

  • Gabriel I, the 57th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel II, the 70th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel III, the 78th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel IV, the 86th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel V, the 88th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel VI, the 91st Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel VII, the 95th Pope of Alexandria
  • Gabriel VIII, the 97th Pope of Alexandria
  • Bishop Gabriel Abdel El-Metgaly, Bishop and martyr
  • Gallicanus, bishop of Pelusium, martyr
  • Gallicanus, martyr
  • Gelasius, monk of Shiheet
  • George, the ascetic
  • George, the prince of martyrs
  • George of Alexandria, martyr
  • George El Mozahem, martyr during the Islamic occupation of Egypt in 969
  • George the new martyr
  • Gereon, member of the Theban Legion
  • Ghalion, the anchorite
  • Gideon one of the Judges of Israel
  • Gregory, the ascetic
  • Gregory, the illuminator, patriarch of Armenia
  • Gregory, the theologian, bishop of Nyssa, brother of St. Basil the Great
  • Gregory, the wonder-worker, bishop of Neocaesarea
  • George, Bishop of Assiut, martyr

    H

  • Habakkuk, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • Habib Girgis, dean of Catechetical School of Alexandria
  • Hadid, the priest
  • Haggai, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • Hannah, the prophetess, mother of Samuel the prophet
  • Hedra, the anchorite, bishop of Aswan
  • Helena, empress, built numerous churches in Egypt
  • Hepatius, bishop of Gangra
  • Heraclas, the 13th Pope of Alexandria
  • Heraclides, the martyr
  • Hermina, the anchorite
  • Hezekiah, the king
  • Hilaria, daughter of Emperor Zeno, lived disguised as a monk
  • Hilarion, the anchorite of Palestine
  • Hor, the ascetic, disciple of St. Pachomius
  • Hor, Besoy, and Daydara, martyr
  • Hor and Susia and their children, and Agathon the hermit, martyrs at Tamouh
  • Hosea, one of the minor twelve minor prophets
  • Hour and his mother Theodora, martyrs
  • Hour El-Siriakousy, martyr