Clergy

Father Abraam Ayoub was born in Sohag June ,11  1974. He studied medicine in Assuit in
1994 and then graduated in the year 2000.He then traveled to New York from 1998 to 1999.  Afterwards, Fr. Abraam went back to Egypt and then returned and immigrated to

the United States on December 2000 after finishing Medical School (South Valley University -Sohag). He was serving in St. Mary and St. Antonious Church in Queens NY from 2000 to 2003.

He then joined a Residency Program (Surgery Department) at Harbor- UCLA hospital in 2005.  Following that, he later joined Loma Linda University Medical Center – Internal Medicine Residency Program until he was called for the priesthood on November 25, 2007.  He was ordained as a consecrated deacon on November 23, 2007 at Archangel Michael in Santa Ana. He was then later ordained as a priest by the hands of His Grace Bishop Serapion and His Grace Bishop Youssef in the Church of St. Mina.

Father George Kamel is the second priest of St. Thomas the Hermit Coptic Orthodox Church. He was ordained as an Archdeacon to serve the congregation of St. Thomas. Following this on September 19th, 2021, he was ordained as a priest by the hands of H.E. Metropolitan Serapion, and their graces Bishop Youssef of the Southern Diocese, Bishop Suriel, Bishop Abraham, and Bishop Kyrillos.