Ecclesial Communion with New Coptic Patriarch Confirmed

Today (19 Dec 2006), a letter of Pope Benedict XVI was released appointing Cardinal Ignace Moussa I Daoud, prefect of the Congregation for Oriental Churches, to take part in the celebration in the basilica of St Paul Outside-the-Walls, where the ecclesiastical communion of a new Coptic patriarch Antonios Naguib of Alexandria will be confirmed.Full text of the news in Czech: HERE.

Vatican: The Synod of Bishops of the Coptic Catholic Church met in Cairo, Egypt, on 27-30 March 2006. After the consultation with the Holy See, the Bishops accepted the resignation of His Beatitude Stéphanos II Ghattas and elected Bishop Antonios Naguib, emeritus of Minya of the Copts, as the new Coptic patriarch of Alexandria.