Noshy Abdelshahid
(1931–2022)
Biography
Dr Noshy Abdelshahid (September 28, 1931–July 9, 2022) was a consecrated servant and the founder and director of the Centre for Patristic Studies in Cairo in 1978.[1]Samuel Tadros, Motherland Lost: The Egyptian Quest for Modernity (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2013): 179. He was also a prolific translator, having produced numerous translations of patristic texts from their original languages into Arabic, as well as works of modern Orthodox theologians such as Metropolitan Kallistos Ware.
After his departure in July 2022, Pope Tawadros II released the following public letter of condolence to the Coptic Church:
Unto the hope of the resurrection we commit Dr Noshy Abdelshahid: a faithful servant, a patristic teacher, a self-sacrificing consecrated servant (mukarras), a powerful author whose many books and translations, which are rich, spiritual and patristic resources, have enriched Coptic libraries.
He was a father to many who were discipled by him in service of the Church. He encouraged them to read, research and study, and opened to them fields of rich Scriptural and authentic patristic understanding.
Truly, this is a great loss both academically and spiritually in the life of our Coptic Orthodox Church. We bid him farewell as one of great stature in the Church, who was strongly connected to most of the fathers of our Church. We ask him to pray on our behalf, that Christ might bring our journey and our service to completion for the sake of His Holy Name.[2]Statement on the Departure of Dr Noshy Abdelshahid, July 9 2022, Coptic Media Center [al-Markaz al-I‘lāmy al-Qibṭy al-Urthudhuksy], Facebook.com, https://www.facebook.com/CopticSP/posts/411256357713025.
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Bibliography
A. Works (partial list)
Articles
“The Syrian Orthodox Church” [al-Kanīsa al-urthudhuksiyya al-Suryaniyya]. Sunday School Magazine 13, no. 2 (February 1959), 36–38.
“He Has Come and Will Come” [Atā wa-saya’tī]. Majallat Murqus 14, no. 146 (January 1973), 20–22.
“Youth Questions” [As’ilat al-shabāb]. Majallat Murqus 14, no. 148 (March 1973), 24–26.
“The Baptism of the Cross” [Ma‘mūdiyyat al-ṣalīb]. Majallat Murqus 14, no. 149 (April 1973), 16–18, 15.
Books
Christ: Priest and Intercessor. The Ascension of Christ and His Priesthood [al-Masīḥ al-kāhin wa-l-shafī‘. Ṣu‘ūd al-Masīḥ wa kahanūt-hu]. al-Markaz al-masry li-l-tab‘a, 1978. 2nd edn, 1997.
B. Further Reading
Tadros, Samuel. Motherland Lost: The Egyptian Quest for Modernity. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2013 (on page 179). (Amazon)
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Notes:
| ↑1 | Samuel Tadros, Motherland Lost: The Egyptian Quest for Modernity (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2013): 179. |
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| ↑2 | Statement on the Departure of Dr Noshy Abdelshahid, July 9 2022, Coptic Media Center [al-Markaz al-I‘lāmy al-Qibṭy al-Urthudhuksy], Facebook.com, https://www.facebook.com/CopticSP/posts/411256357713025. |