Fr Salib Suryal
(1916–1994)
Biography
Fr Salib Suryal (1916–1994) was a pioneering member of the Sunday School movement in Giza, renowned for its emphasis on practical service of the poor and pastoral care. He was born Wahib Zaky in 1916 in Tala, Munufiyya.[1]Fr Salib Suryal, Aḥdāth kanasiyya ‘ishtu-hā wa ‘āyishtu-hā (Cairo: Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, 1989; repr. 2016): 18. Along with Saad Aziz (Bishop Samuel) and Yassa Hanna, he was one of the first graduates of a special three-year degree created by Archdeacon Habib Girgis for university-educated Copts.[2]Elhamy Khalil, “Fr Salib Sourial (1916–1994): Giant among giants,” Watani, December 20, 2016, http://en.wataninet.com/features/in-memorial/fr-salib-sourial-1916-1994-giant-among-giants/18323/. He played a key role in reconciling Fr Matthew the Poor with Pope Kyrillos VI in 1969.[3]See Daniel Fanous, A Silent Patriarch. Kyrillos VI: Life and Legacy (Yonkers, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2019): 341–44.
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Bibliography
A. Works written or edited by Fr Salib Suryal
Studies on the Pentateuch [Dirāsāt fī ’āsfār Mūsā al-khamsa]. Cairo: al-Anba Ruwis, 1986.
Church Events which I Lived and Experienced [Āḥdāth kanasiyya ‘ishtu-hā wa ‘āyishtu-hā]. Cairo: Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, 1989. Repr. 2016.
Studies in the Canons Regarding Marriage [Dirāsāt fī Qawānīn al-’āḥwāl al-shakhṣiyya li-‘aqdī al-khiṭba wa-l-zawāj wa buṭlān-hu wa faskh-hu]. Giza: Dar al-‘alam al-‘arabi, 1990.
On the Nomocanon of Ibn al-‘Assal [Dirāsāt fī Kitāb al-Majm-u‘ al-Ṣāfawī li-Ibn al-‘Assāl]. Studies in the Church Canons, Vol. 4. al-Kulliyya al-Iklirikiyya al-Lahutiyya li-l-Qubt al-Urthudhuks, 1992.
B. Further Reading
Fanous, Daniel. A Silent Patriarch. Kyrillos VI: Life and Legacy. Yonkers, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2019 (see pp. 169–72, 170–72, 179, 188–89, 205, 245, 281–84, 339, 341–44).
Khalil, Elhamy. “Fr Salib Sourial (1916–1994): Giant among giants.” Watani, December 20, 2016, http://en.wataninet.com/features/in-memorial/fr-salib-sourial-1916-1994-giant-among-giants/18323/.
Notes:
| ↑1 | Fr Salib Suryal, Aḥdāth kanasiyya ‘ishtu-hā wa ‘āyishtu-hā (Cairo: Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, 1989; repr. 2016): 18. |
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| ↑2 | Elhamy Khalil, “Fr Salib Sourial (1916–1994): Giant among giants,” Watani, December 20, 2016, http://en.wataninet.com/features/in-memorial/fr-salib-sourial-1916-1994-giant-among-giants/18323/. |
| ↑3 | See Daniel Fanous, A Silent Patriarch. Kyrillos VI: Life and Legacy (Yonkers, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2019): 341–44. |
Related:
Connections: Pope Kyrillos VI (1902–1971) | Fr Matthew the Poor (1919–2006) | Bishop Samuel (1920–1981)
Affiliation(s): Sunday School Movement | Sunday School of Giza
Categories: church historians | pastoral theologians