ERMOPOLI (el-Minja). – Residential see of the Copts, with a Catholic bishop since 6 March 1896; today administered by the same patriarch. Faithful 10,622, priests 14, churches 15. Catholic Action organizations and confraternities 7.
BIBL.: S. Congregazione Orientale, Statistica con cenni storici d. gerarchia e dei fedeli di rito orientale, Vatican City 1932, pp. 38–39; Annuaire catholique d'Egypte, Cairo 1946; Annuaire Pontificio, 1949, p. 177.