Ishaq Musaad was Bishop of Egypt from 1974 [1] to 1982. [2]
He studied for the priesthood at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead and was ordained in 1954. After a curacy in Old Cairo he was Curate in charge at Giza until 1961. He was the Chaplain at Heliopolis from then until 1972 when he became Archdeacon in Egypt. [3]
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