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Anba Mikhail (Arabic: نيافة الأنبا ميخائيل مطران أسيوط) (born 4 July 1921) is the Elder Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Asyut (Lycopolis) (Hieracon (Hierakonopolis) and (Apollonopolis Parva) of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and was the Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes Lower Egypt until early 2009 when he decided to resign this responsibility due to his failing health and also due to the demise of Matta El-Meskeen the Chief Hegumen in-charge of the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in 2008.Metropolitan Mikhail was born in 1921 in the poor family of Egyptian Coptic Christians in the village of Al-Rahmaniya in the district of Nag Hammadi in Qena Governorate.