Date of source: Friday, August 18, 2006
This article explains
that the patriarchal chair should only be filled
by a qualified person who is elected according to the laws of the
church.
Date of source: Saturday, July 1, 2006 to Friday, July 7, 2006
The author deals with the future prospects of the church after Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, and the possibility that the next pope could come from outside Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, July 2, 2006
The author in
this article wonders whether the idea of the
Catholic patriarch’s resignation could be applicable in the
situation of the Egyptian Orthodox church.
Date of source: Thursday, June 29, 2006
The author, who is the press advisor of Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, reviews some of the Pope’s main characteristics.
Date of source: Saturday, July 1, 2006 to Friday, July 7, 2006
The
article outlines some of the 18-article statute on the election of a patriarch in
accordance with the republican
decree of 1957.
Date of source: Saturday, July 1, 2006 to Friday, July 7, 2006
The articles that regulate the election of the Coptic patriarch are unconstitutional and violate the laws of the Apostles as well as the church law which obliges all Copts to choose their pastor.
Date of source: Saturday, July 1, 2006 to Friday, July 7, 2006
The Coptic community wonders who will succeed Pope
Shenouda after illness strikes him?
Although regulations stipulating the transfer of church power will give
bishops, monks and priests the opportunity
to stand for elections, elections are now confined only to
general bishops.
Date of source: Saturday, July 1, 2006 to Friday, July 7, 2006
A
tense relationship exists between the
Pope and emigrant Christians because they used to oppose the systems of the
state and the president and they
do not submit to the Pope’s opinions.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
The Church is witnessing some secret moves to pass a new regulation for papal elections. Informed sources close to the Church say that the modifications in the new regulation will tighten the grip of certain people over the church and will bring one of them to the papacy.
Date of source: Monday, December 1, 2003
Pope Shenouda recently stated that the 1957 regulation is fair, yet it may stand as an obstacle before persons with good qualifications and well-know names who became monks a few years ago, as the regulation stipulates that a candidate to the papal chair should have spent 15 years as a monk. Any...