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| March 30 2025 | Metropolitan Pachomius departed, leaving the position of metropolitan bishop of the Holy Metropolis of Damanhur and Al Buhayrah Governorate vacant. |
| February 4 2025 | Metropolitan Aghapios departed, creating a vacancy for the metropolitan bishop of the Holy Metropolis of Deir Mawas and Delga. |
| January 26 2025 | Scheduled enthronement of Abune Basilyos at the Church of Saint Virgin Mary. |
| December 9 2024 | Archbishop Abune Basilyos was elected as the 6th Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church. |
| 2023 | Bishop Suriel's tenure as Auxiliary Bishop concludes |
| 2023 | Continued growth, with priests increasing to 66, total priests reaching 91, and deacons expanding to 24, while maintaining 44 parishes and 4 bishops. |
| October 22 2023 | Metropolitan Athanasius departed, leaving the position of metropolitan bishop of the Holy Metropolis of Marseille and Primate of the Holy Metropolis of Toulon and of all France vacant. |
| August 5 2023 | Bishop Mishael departed, creating a vacancy for the diocesan bishop of the Holy Diocese of Southern Germany and abbot of the Monastery of Saint Anthony the Great in Kroeffelbach, Germany. |
| February 15 2023 | The Church reached an agreement with the illegally ordained synod. |
| 2022 | Significant growth in clergy, with the number of priests increasing dramatically to 58, and total priests reaching 79, while maintaining 44 parishes and 4 bishops. |
| December 2 2022 | Abune Qerlos's term as Patriarch ended. |
| September 6 2022 | Bishop Issak departed, leaving the position of auxiliary bishop for the Holy Metropolis of Beheira (Hermopolis Parva) vacant. |
| 2021 | Diocese expanded to 44 parishes, with a slight increase in priests to 40, while maintaining 11 deacons, 2 sisters, and 4 bishops. |
| June 2021 | Qerlos became the fifth patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. |
| May 13 2021 | Abune Qerlos became Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. |
| 2020 | Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California, and Hawaii had 43 parishes, with 11 deacons, 2 sisters, 38 priests, and 4 bishops. |
| February 15 2019 | Bishop Suriel relocated to assist Metropolitan Serapion in the service of the diocese. |
| 2018 | Construction of the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Cairo completed, becoming the largest active Oriental Orthodox church in the world. |
| 2018 | Minya bus attack targeting Coptic Christians occurred. |
| 2018 | Bishop Suriel returns to serve as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese |
| July 29 2018 | Bishop Epiphanios was martyred, creating a vacancy in the position of bishop and abbot of the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes, Lower Egypt. |
| April 29 2017 | Bishop Markos departed from the position of patriarchal exarch of the Eritrean Congregation in the UK, leaving the position vacant. |
| February 28 2016 | Pope Tawadros II elevated Bishop Serapion to metropolitan and called Bishops Abraham and Kyrillos to assist him in serving the diocese. |
| 2015 | Coptic Christians kidnapped and beheaded in Libya by the Islamic State. |
| December 21 2015 | Patriarch Abuna Dioskoros, who had replaced Abune Antonios, died. |
| August 2013 | Churches and monasteries in Upper Egypt were forced to cancel Sunday Mass for the first time in 1,600 years due to intense persecution by the Muslim Brotherhood. |
| June 20 2013 | Pope Tawadros II decreed that the Archangels Michael and Gabriel Coptic Orthodox Church in Fresno would be incorporated into the diocese. |
| November 18 2012 | Pope Theodore II becomes the 118th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, succeeding the previous patriarch. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles List of Coptic Orthodox popes, Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California, and Hawaii, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church & Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.