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Biography
Fr Athanasius Fahmy George is a priest at the Church of St Mina in Fleming, Alexandria. In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate in patristics from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in recognition of his achievements in the field of patristics in Arabic.[1]“Hegumen Athanasius Fahmy George”, St-takla.org, https://st-takla.org/characters/priest-pastor-father/alif/athanasius-fahmy-george.html/, accessed August 10, 2020. He was mentored by Deacon Yousef Habib.[2]Fr Athanasius Fahmy George, Deacon Yousef Habib (Scarborough, UK: Monastery of St Athanasius the Apostolic, 2006): 7
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On the ΙΧΘΥΣ website, the entire ΙΧΘΥΣ series edited by Fr Athanasius is available for free, along with various articles. More of Fr Athanasius’s publications are available online on sites like Coptic Treasures and the website of Fr Antonios Fahmy.
George, Athanasius Fahmy. Deacon Yousef Habib: Historian and Scholar [al-Shammās Yusif Habib: al-mu’ārrikh wa-l-‘alāma]. Scarborough, UK: Monastery of St Athanasius the Apostolic, 2006.
George, Athanasius Fahmy. The Church in Patristic Thought: The Discipline of Ecclesiology [al-Kanīsa fī fikr al-ābā’: ‘ilm al-iklīsīūlūjī]. Siubris, 2019. (PDF)
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Connections: Yousef Habib (1909–1981) | Fr Luka Sidarous (1940–2020)