Adel Zaky

Adel Zaky, O.F.M. (1 December 1947 – 21 July 2019) was an Egyptian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Apostolic Vicar of Alexandria since 2009 until 2019. Prior to his episcopal appointment, he served in various parishes across cities such as Cairo and was also the order's national provincial superior for a time before returning to parish work.

Life Bishop Adel Zaky was born on 1 December 1947 in Luxor. Brother of Edward, Tharwat, Atef and Magdy Zaky. From 1959 until 1963 he attended the Assiut University where he obtained his bachelor's degree in theological studies.

He entered the Order of Friars Minor in the 1960s in Guizeh and began his novitiate on 30 September 1968 before making his simple profession on 1 October 1969. Zaky made his solemn religious profession on 10 September 1972. On 24 September 1972 he received his ordination to the priesthood from the Bishop Jean de Capistran Aimé Cayer. Following his ordination he continued with additional studies from 1973 to 1975 at the Jesuit-run Saint Joseph University in Beirut in Lebanon where he obtained a licentiate in dogmatic theology in 1975.

In March 2015 the Franciscan-managed Coptic Church of Kafr el-Dawar was attacked prompting Bishop Zaky to refer to the episode as a link to a series of attacks against infrastructure leading him to believe the objective of attackers was to make the country insecure and also to destabilize it.