Pope Tawadros II to Visit Pope Francis

CWN – 6/4/13

Pope Tawadros (Theodoros) II of Alexandria, who was elected head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in November, has announced that he will soon visit Pope Francis in Rome. The announcement followed an April 3 meeting with Archbishop Jean-Paul Gobel, who was appointed apostolic nuncio to Egypt in January.

The Coptic Orthodox Church is not one of the Eastern Orthodox churches; rather, it is an Oriental Orthodox church. Pope Tawadros’s visit to Rome will be the first by a Coptic Orthodox pope since May 1973, when Pope Paul VI and Coptic Pope Shenouda III signed a common Christological declaration.

The Coptic Orthodox Church has nine million members, most of them in Egypt.

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    mark 11 years

    pope tawadros sadly 120 churches were burnt in egypt . also there is a person called mina sobhy is famous that he is persecuted in this land . the last attackhe faced was true criminal and i heared no egyptian hospitals offered help to him . is this islam ?

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