His Holiness Macarius III was the Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark (1942 – 1945). Born on February 18, 1872 in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Egypt died on August 31 1945 in Cairo. Before becoming a Pope he was the Metropolitan of Assiut in Egypt , he is the second Bishop/Metropolitan to become a Pope in the history of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the first Bishop/Metropolitan to become a Pope was Pope John XIX