Metropolitan Paphnutius of Samalut

On 14 January 1972, he entered the Monastery of the Syrians. On 12 March 1972, was tonsured a monk by the name Antonius the Syrian (Arabic: انطونيوس السريانى) by the hands of Bishop Theophilus, the abbot of the Monastery of the Syrians. He was ordained a priest on 30 March 1975, and was later elevated to the dignity of Hegumen by Pope Shenouda III on 4 June 1976. During his time in the monastery he served as a physician in the monastery clinic.^[3]

On the Feast of Pentecost, 13 June 1976, he was ordained as Bishop Paphnutius by Pope Shenouda III, for the newly established Diocese of Samalut. He was received in Samalut and enthroned on 24 June 1976, in the presence of then Bishop Wissa of El Balyana, Bishop Pimen of Malawi, Bishop Arsanius of Minya, and Bishop Timotheos. He celebrated his first liturgy in the Diocese's Cathedral on 25 Jun 1976.^[4]

On 27 February 2016, he was elevated to the dignity of Metropolitan by Pope Tawadros II.^[5]