Pope John VI of Alexandria
Pope John VI of Alexandria, 74th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.
His name was John Abu al-Majd ibn Abu Ghaleb ibn Sawiris. He was layman. It was said that he was a widower, and after his wife's death he chose to remain celibate. He kept the church headquarters in the Hanged Church in Old Cairo. He proscribed a canon that a church could not accept a priest unknown to them without having a consent statement from his bishop. He was buried in the Church of the Darag under the tomb of Pope Zakharias, the 64th Coptic Patriarch.
In 1210, his envoys reached the city of Lalibela in Ethiopia, where they met Emperor Gebre Mesqel Lalibela.
He was the last Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria to consecrate a bishop for Western Pentapolis, as the people converted to Islam under the rule of the Arabs.
