Patriarch Anba Ibrahim Isaac attends Don Bosco Institute centenary, church says
The celebration in Cairo reviewed a century of technical education, vocational training, and youth service, the Catholic Church in Egypt said.
The Catholic Church in Egypt said on 9 November 2026 that Patriarch Anba Ibrahim Isaac, Patriarch of Alexandria for the Coptic Catholics and President of the Council of Patriarchs and Catholic Bishops in Egypt, participated in an inspection tour and a review of the historical journey of the Don Bosco Institute in Cairo.
The event occurred during the centenary celebration of the founding of the Salesian Don Bosco Institute in Cairo, which reviewed a century of technical education, vocational training, and youth service under the slogan “One hundred years of education, work, and youth service.. an eternal legacy that continues to inspire generations”, the church said.
The program included receiving dignitaries, a ceremony for the laying of the centenary cornerstone, and an inspection tour inside the institute. The tour featured a historical corridor reviewing the institution's hundred-year journey via a photo exhibition of historical milestones and a technology exhibition displaying technological projects, the church said.
Archbishop Nicolas Henry, the Papal Nuncio to Egypt; Metropolitan Claudio Lorati, Latin Church Metropolitan in Egypt; Father Fabio Attard, Superior General of the Salesian Order worldwide; Father Simon Zakarian, Regional Superior of the Salesian Order in the Middle East; Father Juan Carlos Perez, a member of the General Council of the Salesian Order and Regional Councilor for the Mediterranean region; and Father Markos Adel, President of the Salesian Don Bosco Institute in Cairo, attended the celebration, the church said. Also participating were priests, monks, nuns, Minister of Labor Mr. Hassan Raddad, students of the Don Bosco Institute, its graduates, and its friends, the church said.