– Al-Moallem Ibrahim El-Gohary was Egypt’s chief of the scribes (senior post in the administration of the Ottoman Empire that is equivalent to a Foreign Minister nowadays) in those days
– The Pope endured many hardships from the Ottoman ruler; the treasury of the Patriarchate was confiscated
– The Catholics published a book teaching the doctrine of the Council of Chalcedon and distributed it everywhere, so the Pope commissioned Bishop Yousab El-Abbah of Gerga to respond to it; he refuted the book, which made the Pope of Rome regret publishing the book in the East