The French Coptic Orthodox Eparchy, one of the dioceses of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, was canonically instituted by His Holiness Abba SHENUDA III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark's Predication, on June 2, 1974 - Whitsunday.

On the same day, His Holiness Abba SHENUDA III, assisted by seventeenMetropolitans and Bishops members of the Holy Synod, while believers watched, ordained in St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo hieromonk MARCOS, from the Abba BISHOI monastery in the Scete Desert (Wadi el Natroun), as first Bishop of France.

During the same ceremony, hieromonk ATHANASIOS, from the Abba BISHOI monastery in the Scete Desert (Wadi el Natroun), was appointed Deputy Bishop.

On June 18, 1994, His Holiness Abba SHENUDA III raised the French Coptic Orthodox Eparchy to the full status of French Coptic Orthodox Church.

On June 19, 1994, Whitsunday, as per the Julian calendar, His Holiness Abba SHENUDA III, assisted by 62 Metropolitans and Bishops, ordained in St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo Deputy Bishop Abba ATHANASIOS as Bishop and bestowed Bishop Abba MARCOS upon the metropolis for the whole of France.

The French Coptic Orthodox Church addresses all French people engaged in a spiritual quest as well as it addresses the spiritual needs of all French Copts of the second and third generation.