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He resigned a civil service position to become a monk in July 1927. He passed his probationary period, and on February 24, 1928 took his monastic vows and assumed the name Fr. Mina El-Baramosy.
In 1947, he built the Church of Saint Mina the Martyr in the Coptic quarter of Cairo.
He became Pope of Alexandria, on May 10, 1959 (Coptic calendar: 2nd of Beshans, 1675). On June 28, 1959 he appointed a Catholicos for Ethiopia. In November 1959 he laid the foundation stone of the new Monastery of Saint Mina the Wonderous in the Mariout Desert.
In January 1965 Cyril presided over the Committee of Eastern Orthodox Churches in Addis Ababa, the first (Masconic) and (Non-Chalcedonian) synod of these churches held in modern times.
In June 1968 Cyril received the remains of the saintly Apostle Mark the Evangelist, which had been absent from Egypt for over eleven centuries. The saint's remains were interred beneath the newly built Grand Cathedral of Saint Mark at St. Rewiss Monastary which was built by Cyril and was opened in a ceremony attended by President Nasser, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, and delegates from most of the world Churches.
At his death bed he said this to the clergy "I am leaving to the Lord... Safeguard the Church with your keen vigil over it... may the Lord shepherd you."
He departed in the Lord on March 9th, 1971 after a short illness.
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