Yusuf Manqaryus (fl. 1893–1918)

Yusuf Bek Manqaryus (18??–1918) was the first Dean (nāẓir) of the Coptic Orthodox Seminary or Klirikiyya, appointed at its foundation in 1893 under the leadership of Pope Kyrillos V.^[1]Habib Girgis, al-Madrasa al-Iklīrīkiyya al-Qibṭiyya al-Urthūdhuksiyya bayn al-māḍī wa-l-ḥāḍir [The Coptic Orthodox Seminary: Past and Present] (Cairo: Jam‘iyyat al-Ta‘āwun al-Iklīrīkī, 1938): 11. See also Bishop Suriel, Habib Girgis: Coptic Orthodox Educator and a Light in the Darkness (Yonkers, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2017): 21n4. A teacher by profession, he had formerly taught French and civil history at al-Madrasa al-Kubra.^[2]Girgis, al-Madrasa al-Iklīrīkiyya, 11. In addition to serving as Dean of the Seminary, he taught civil history and geography at the seminary in its early years ^[3]Girgis, al-Madrasa al-Iklīrīkiyya, 16. Cf. Suriel, Habib Girgis, 94–95. 

He authored a number of books on Coptic history and doctrine, and founded and edited one of the earliest and most important Coptic periodicals, titled al-Ḥaqq (Truth), founded in 1894, which featured articles by himself and a number of prominent authors.