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fruitless. Agathangelo would later be hanged as a martyr in Ethiopia by order of the Ethiopian king in 1638, and the mission in Cairo would start to decline.

The Jesuits came in 1675.

In 1741, the Coptic bishop, Anba Athanasius of Jerusalem, became a Catholic. In 1781, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV as vicar apostolic

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