Iris Habib Al-Masri and her Role in Ecumenical Work

Abstract

The study dealt with the personality of Iris Habib Al-Masri and her social role in Egypt, and highlighted this through her position in support of the accession of the Coptic Orthodox Church to the World Council of Churches and its calls to preserve Coptic rituals, customs and traditions in churches and its support for the advancement of the status of women, their participation and entry into many fields, by joining many Coptic feminist associations and teaching at the Institute of Coptic Studies and the intellectual wealth she left behind, both in the books she wrote and the lectures she gave at the Coptic Institute and the Seminary. Churches, associations and conferences, hence their personality as a teacher, historian and reformer.