Pope Benjamin II of Alexandria

Benjamin II was the 82nd Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St Mark, serving from 1327 to 1339. Born in Demicrat in southern Egypt, he lived as a hermit and monk before his election, and was consecrated in 1327.

Under him the Copts suffered fierce persecution under Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, with churches and monasteries destroyed; he rebuilt the ruined Monastery of Abba Bishoy in the Nitrian Desert. He died on 6 January 1339 and was later reburied there.