We are a recently established Benedictine Community in Egypt known as St. Benedict of the Copts; a monastery of the Benedictine Congregation of Sankt Ottilien, established in the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria with houses in Cairo and Ismailia. The monastery in Ismailia is named after St. Anthony the Great. At the moment the community depends on the Council of the Congregation and the Abbot President is its Major Superior. It is governed by the Constitutions of the Benedictine Congregation of Sankt Ottilien and by special statues.

The Holy See i.e. the Vatican approved our Egyptian foundation and the relevant decree came out on 15^th of November 2017. The then Abbot President Jeremias OSB signed and sealed the canonical establishment of the “Monastery of St Benedict of the Copts” on 8^th December 2017, the Solemnity of Immaculate Conception.

The solemn inauguration took place on 9^th of March 2018 and was presided over by His Beatitude, Patriarch Ibrahim Isaaq, the patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria and the President of the Catholic Church in Egypt.

Our Community maintains a special relationship Munsterschwarzach Abbey in Germany that accompanies our growth closely, both spiritually and through sponsorship.

Our important feasts are, 21^st of March – Solemnity of St. Benedict and 17^th of January – Solemnity of St. Anthony the Great.