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title: "Rev. Rafael Iskander · St Cyril’s"
url: https://stcyrils.edu.au/faculty/rafael-iskander
description: "Rev. Rafael Iskander, Vice Chair of Council, Lecturer in Biblical Studies (Old Testament). Rev. Rafael Iskander has been a parish priest of St George’s…"
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Qualifications

* BPharm, Cairo University
* Dip of Counselling, AIPC
* MTh, University of Sydney

Faculty

# Rev. Rafael Iskander

Vice Chair of Council, Lecturer in Biblical Studies (Old Testament)

**_Rev. Rafael Iskander_** has been a parish priest of St George’s Coptic Church in Kensington since 1993, and is currently Vicar of the Coptic Diocese of Sydney. He has been teaching Old Testament since 1996, and has served as a professional counsellor since 2010\. He has written two books that are forthcoming, _Reading into the Book of Genesis_ and _Reading into the Epistle of St Paul to the Ephesians_.

#### Research & supervision interests

Old Testament

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