The Committee for Monasticism and Monastery Affairs, affiliated to the Coptic Orthodox Holy Synod, has held a special meeting to discuss the discipline of monastic and monastery life, in light of the recent martyrdom [murder] of Anba Epiphanius, Abbot of the Monastery of St Macarius in Wadi al-Natroun in Egypt’s Western Desert. Pope Tawadros II … Continue reading Holy Synod issues 12 decrees to discipline monastic life and conditions; bishop first to respond