Fr lazarus el anthony biography of abraham

Orthodox Christian anchorite

FatherLazarus El Anthony (Arabic: لعازر الانطوني; Coptic: ⲗⲁⲍⲁⲣ Ⲁⲛⲧⲱⲛⲓ; Syriac: ܠܥܙܪ ܐܢܛܘܢܝܣ) is an Australian-Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian contemplativemonk and hermit.

He has appeared in various documentaries, most notably the BBC series Extreme Pilgrim.

Fr. Lazarus has been the primary subject of two documentary films, The Last Anchorite, which took Best Documentary Transmitter Award winner at the Crystal Palace International Film Festival 2010, and Desert Foreigners, released in 2018.

Fr lazarus el anthony biography of abraham

In addition, there are numerous short videos arranged in several series of videos on the Coptic Youth Channel on YouTube.

Biography

Lazarus El Anthony was born into a Protestant Christian family in Tasmania, Australia, where he attended Methodist and Roman Catholic church services as a child.

He became an atheist when he was a teenager.^[1][2] He taught philosophy at a university in Tasmania. He was married