St. Mary & St. Antonious Coptic Orthodox Church of Milwaukee, WI

St. Mary & St. Antonious Coptic Orthodox Church of Milwaukee, WI Coptic Orthodox Church The first Coptic Egyptian family to arrive in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was in 1968. and Canada to serve the Divine Liturgy. Fr. Rewis H.

Since then, more families arrived in Milwaukee as well as in Madison, Appleton, Fond De Lac, and also in other areas of Wisconsin. The number of families in the state of Wisconsin now exceeds sixty. Since the arrival of the first few families in the late 1960s, the Copts longed for the services of their home Church. Early on, Coptic Egyptian priests used to come to Wisconsin from surrounding cities with larger Coptic communities in the U.S. In the mid 1970s, the Chicago congregation had their own priest, and he started to come to Milwaukee on a semi-regular schedule to serve the Divine Liturgy and Holy Communion, baptize babies, perform wedding ceremonies, and all other services needed of him by the growing community. All of this took place at different rented church buildings in the area. On December 22, 1988, after twenty years of yearning for a church building of their own, the Copts of Wisconsin bought their church in Waterford, Wisconsin. At that time, a second priest was serving the growing congregation in Chicago. The presence of two priests in the area facilitated servicing Wisconsin on a more regular schedule. Isaac Tanious, the priest from Chicago, attended to the services in Milwaukee on alternate weekends, while the priests serving other neighboring states such as Minneapolis and Indiana also visited to pray the Divine Liturgy in Milwaukee. The Copts of Wisconsin were in need for a permanent priest. His Holiness Pope Shenouda III saw their desperation and their growing congregation. In 1993 he assigned Fr. Awadalla to come from Tanta, Egypt to serve the congregation in Wisconsin as a permanent priest. Father Rewis’s fruitful services and prayers helped the Wisconsin congregation to look into purchasing a new church or piece of land to build a Coptic Orthodox Church according to the traditional style. Since the Waterford church building was getting to be small for the growing congregation, the search intensified and a lot was purchased in Oak Creek, Wisconsin where our church stands today.

09/10/2026

Blessed
Nayrouz Feast
(Coptic New Year)
1743

08/28/2026

Look out for our next event, our Egyptian cookie sale on December 12 and 13!

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08/22/2026

Taste of Egypt 2026 August 21-23

08/22/2026
08/06/2026

Taste of Egypt 2026
August 21-23

Today, marks the 20th anniversary for the church’s very first liturgy at its new building in Oak Creek, memory eternal t...
08/05/2026

Today, marks the 20th anniversary for the church’s very first liturgy at its new building in Oak Creek, memory eternal to Father Rewis Awadalla who led the way to this markable moment with the grace of God!

The martyrdom of Saint Mark the evangelist, the very first pope of the Coptic Church!
05/06/2026

The martyrdom of Saint Mark the evangelist, the very first pope of the Coptic Church!

The Stamp of Saint Mark The Evanglist

The stamp, was issued by the Egyptian Post Office Authority in 1968, on the occasion of the return of the relics of St. Mark from Italy!

On the occasion of the 1900th anniversary of the martyrdom of the saint as written on the stamp, and on the occasion of the opening of the Grand Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, and in the presence of Pope Kyrillos VI, and the former president Gamal Abdel Nasser and Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie, The construction was began in 1965.

Abdel Nasser provided a great financial support from the state to build the Cathedral, to be appropriate for St. Mark

On Wednesday morning, June 26, 1968, prayer was held on the altar of the Cathedral, and at the end of the mass, Pope Kyrillos VI carried the relics of Saint Mark, to where he was deposited in his current shrine under the large alter in the east of the Cathedral.

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1521 W Drexel Avenue
Oak Creek, WI
53154

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Saturday 7pm - 9pm
Sunday 8:30am - 12pm

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