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Date of source: Sunday, October 28, 2012
Monday (October 29) will be the day long awaited by Copts – eight months – to elect a successor for Pope Shenouda III, who passed away on March 17, 2012, to sit on the chair of Saint Mark, one of the apostles of Jesus, and who preached the Gospel in Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2012
Bishop Bula, the official spokesman for the papal elections, said Pope Tawadrus II entrusted the nominations committee with starting to draft a new statute regulating the election of pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church to replace the 1957 statute.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius ordered the formation of an ad hoc commission to oversee the ceremony of the enthronement of Bishop Tawadros II as the 118th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark at the Cairo district of al- ‘Abbassīyah in succession of Pope Shenouda III, who...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Members of the nominations and elections committees under the acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius started works inside Anba Bīshūy Monastery in Wādī al-Natrūn, to examine all 81 contests submitted against the 17 candidates – seven bishops and 10 monks – vying over the chair of Saint Mark. [Marco ‘...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Bishop Quzmān of North Sinai said the church has not witnessed a single mass since the outbreak of the January 25, 2011 revolution, denying, however, the mass service was canceled for security reasons or out of fear over the life of Copts there.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
In al-Akhbār, Marco ‘Ādil writes about an attack by a militant group on the shrine of Sīdī Yūsuf al-Zahār in the village of Ajhūr al-Ramal.
Date of source: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius nodded a recent statement by the Los Angeles parish priests assembly that called for not including the name of Bishop Serapion of Los Angeles on the list of persons contained in a report to the public prosecutor in Egypt regarding a...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Pope Tawadros announced that the Church does not play a political role in Egypt and that its position during Mursī’s deposal was in response to the popular demands.
Date of source: Thursday, April 24, 2014
Pope Tawadros has assured that the Coptic Church will not support any particular candidate in the forthcoming presidential election. He added that the people should read the platforms of each candidate and select based on that (Husnī Milad et al. al-Akhbār, April 24, p. 8).
Date of source: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Members of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Lebanon have received pope Tawadros with splendid happiness. The Pope took part in condolences ceremony of Pope Mar Ignatius, late Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church after which he visited the Coptic Orthodox Church in Lebanon. Bishop Abraham of the...
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