50 years on St Mark’s, Pope consecrates renovated Cathedral
This year, 2018, marks the golden jubilee of St Mark’s Cathedral in Abbassiya, Cairo, seat of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch ...
Tag: Pope Tawadros II
Pope Tawadros visits monastery where Abbot was murdered
Saturday 27 October 2018, Pope Tawadros II paid a visit to the Monastery of St Macarius in Wadi al-Natroun in ...
Pope Tawadros visits Anba Bishoy’s shrine
Back home in Cairo following his month-long US pastoral visit that ended 13 October, Pope Tawadros II yesterday visited to ...
Pope Tawadros celebrates silver jubilee of Coptic Diocese of Southern US
Pope Tawadros, who has been on a pastoral visit in the US since 13 September, has celebrated with the Coptic ...
Coptic Orthodox Lay Council declares support for Pope Tawadros
The Coptic Orthodox Melli (literally Lay or Community) Council has issued a statement last evening announcing its support for Pope ...
Anba Bishoy (1942 – 2018), Metropolitan of Dumyat and Kafr al-Sheikh, passes away
The Coptic Orthodox Church has lost a great pastor, scholar and theologian: Anba Bishoy, Metropolitan of Dumyat (Damietta) and Kafr ...
Pope Tawadros opens language School in his hometown of Damanhour
Pope Tawadros II, accompanied by Beheira Governor Hisham Amna, has opened al-Karma Language School in Damanhour, the capital city of ...
Sisi receives Coptic youth
President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi received today at the presidential palace in Cairo Pope Tawadros II and representatives from among the young ...
Joyous ‘Back to Roots’ for Coptic Diaspora young
“Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4), was the joyful motto of the forum “Back ...
Six monks moved from St Macarius Monastery
A decision was today taken by the Committee for Monastic and Monastery Affairs (CMMA), affiliated to the Coptic Orthodox Holy ...
St Macarius monk and defrocked monk charged with murdering Abbot
Egypt’s Public Prosecutor Nabil Sadeq has issued a statement charging Wael Saad Tawadros, 34, and the monk Falta’os al-Maqari, 33, ...
Church warns: Non official monastic establishments must qualify for recognition by Church
The Committee for Monastic and Monastery Affairs (CMMA), affiliated to the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, and headed by Pope ...
Pope calls and meets family members of suspect killers of Anba Epiphanius
Pope Tawadros II today made a telephone call to the mother of Wael Saad Tawadros who had been a monk ...
Defrocked monk charged with murder of Abbot
Tomorrow, 11 August, Alexandria Appeals Prosecution takes on from Wadi al-Natroun Prosecution the investigation into the murder of Anba Epiphanius, ...
Defrocked monk in police custody
Sources close to the ex-monk Ishaia’ al-Maqari who was defrocked yesterday, 5 August, said that ever since the ...
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