1. O you whom we congratulate on the ordination as bishop
An honor, so you are in truth with what you have attained

2. You did not fail in your diligence as a novice and founder
In righteousness and rectitude is the path

3. Until signs appeared in Jerusalem that erased
The darkness, so the sunset became sunrise

4. And the saplings of knowledge and virtues grew
Thanks to its remembered era, hoped for

5. An era in which you succeeded in wishes
With no shortcoming of merit or being preceded

6. And it collected its share from whom it grew
Milking, so for what it aspired was realization

7. It called upon you for the great burden, but you did not feel narrowed
An arm’s length, though the arm’s length of the very capable feels narrowed

8. And you endured in benefiting and guiding the youth
What no other skin besides yours could endure

9. You expend efforts educating and authoring
While revelation is grace and certainty is firm

10. So today the struggler succeeds in reward
Dues owed to him and rights are fulfilled

11. In justice the active striver is rewarded in
The paths of guidance and the well-mannered scholar

12. His wearing the canonical gowns and adornments
A feast pleasing in its beauty and agreeable

13. The house is bright and the sky illuminated
The crowd is joyous and the order elegant

14. O you whom we congratulate and know
He fulfilled the trust and the account is precise

15. We wish you success, so go well-guided
And those you will shepherd success through you

16. O elite of the people who have held
A celebration for our new bishop, fitting

17. It suffices that the generous ones a
Lofty position for them in Egypt

18. Greet him out of confidence in whom he appointed and what
In their action is neither taste nor embellishment

19. May camaraderie between us and its leader endure
The master of pastors, the Patriarch

20. He is a leader with no cowardice in his armies
He is a father, no filial impiety in his children

21. For true and beautiful patience we revere him
Does not the patient, truthful one deserve reverence?

22. He has indeed won hearts and he
With love and loyalty is true