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Pope Michael IV of Alexandria

Head of the Coptic Church from 1092 to 1102

Field	Value
type	Pope
honorific-prefix	Pope
name	Michael IV of Alexandria
title	Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark
enthroned	9 October 1092
ended	25 May 1102
predecessor	Cyril II
successor	Macarius II
birth_place	Egypt
death_date	25 May 1102
death_place	Egypt
buried	Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great
nationality	Egyptian
religion	Coptic Orthodox Christian
residence	The Hanging Church

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Pope Michael IV of Alexandria, also known as Khail IV, 68th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.

He was initially a monk at the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes. He later went to a place near Singar, where he lived in a cave for more than 20 years. On 12 Paopi, 809 A.M. (9 October 1092 AD), he was ordained Pope of Alexandria. He was known for his love of the poor and needy, and for spending the church money on paying the Jizya for those Copts who could not afford to pay it, so that they could keep their Christianity.

The Arabic historian al-Makin is quoted by later historians as recounting that Pope Michael IV made a journey to Ethiopia to ask that country's Emperor to allow the Nile to flood to its normal levels, which would end the current famine. Trimingham dismisses this as only a legend.

Michael IV departed on 30 Pashons, 818 A.M. (25 May 1102 AD) He remained on the Throne of Saint Mark for 9 years, 7 months, and 17 days.

Notes

before=Cyril II| title=Coptic Pope| years=1092–1102| after=Macarius II}}

References

"Coptic Synaxarium for Bashans 30/7 June".
[[J. Spencer Trimingham]], ''Islam in Ethiopia ''(Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 65n.

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