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On November 17, 1991, he was consecrated as Abraham II, Metropolitan of Jerusalem and Archbishop of all Palestine, Philadelphia of Jordan, and all the Near East, at the hands of Pope Shenouda III, and the bishops and metropolitans of the Holy Synod. He was enthroned in Jerusalem on January 3, 1992. [2] During his time as Metropolitan of ...
Coptic church. Coptic church may refer to: The Coptic Orthodox Church, a church in the Oriental Orthodox communion. The Coptic Catholic Church, one of the Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Holy See. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, an Oriental Orthodox Christian church in Sub-Saharan Africa. This disambiguation page lists ...
The Coptic Orthodox Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox churches (not to be confused with the Byzantine Orthodox group of churches) and is presided over by the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria who is the body's spiritual leader. This position is held since 2012 by Pope Tawadros II, the 118th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of all Africa on ...
The 2011 Alexandria bombing was an attack on Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, on Saturday, 1 January 2011. 23 people died and another 97 were injured as a result of the attack, which occurred as Christian worshipers were leaving a New Year service. [1] [3] [4] [5] The attack was the deadliest act of violence against Egypt's Coptic ...
As the apparition appeared over a Coptic church, the Vatican left the investigation to the Coptic authorities. The apparitions were also allegedly witnessed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and images photographed by newspaper photographers and Egyptian television. Investigations performed by the police could find no apparent explanation.
Death. On Monday, October 1, 1945, he was shot dead while walking from the Monastery of Saint Anthony the Great in the Eastern Desert, to the nearby village of Bush. The circumstances around his murder were unclear, and the perpetrator remains unknown. He was buried at a property belonging to the Monastery of Saint Anthony the Great, in Bush.
The cathedral was built by the Egyptian presidency and by engineers from the Egyptian Armed Forces. [6] It was inaugurated on 6 January 2019 by President el-Sisi and Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. [8] On the same day of the inauguration, Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the chapel of the ...