ERMOPOLI (*el-Minja*). — Residential see of the Copts, with a Catholic bishop since 6 March 1896; today administered by the patriarch himself. Inhabitants 10,622, priests 14, churches 15. Catholic Action works and confraternities 7.
BIBL.: S. Congregazione Orientale, *Statistica con centri storici di gerarchia e dei fedeli di rito orientale*, Città del Vaticano 1932, pp. 38-39; *Annuaire catholique d'Egypte*, Cairo 1946; *Anuario Pontificio*, 1949, p. 177.