First Coptic church in Hungary Consecrated

By: MTI 23/8/2011 Shenouda III, the leader of the Coptic Christian community, consecrated the first Coptic church in Hungary on Sunday. The Coptic Pope, as he is called in the Egyptian religious community, consecrated the church in a three-hour ceremony in the presence of five Coptic bishops and hundreds of faithful in Budapest’s 18th district amid tight security measures. The church was dedicated to Mother of God, the Holy Virgin Mary, and Archangel Michael.