Al-Rahi Attends Tawadros' Enthronement before Heading to Rome
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi attended on Sunday the enthronement of the new Coptic pope in Cairo ahead of the Nov. 24 ceremony that would officially appoint him as a new cardinal in the Catholic church.
The enthronement of Bishop Tawadros was held at Cairo's St. Mark's Cathedral.
Tawadros, 60, was chosen on Nov. 4 to succeed Pope Shenuda II, who died in March after four decades on the patriarchal throne.
He becomes spiritual head of the largest Christian minority in the Middle East and 118th pope in a line dating back to the origins of Christianity and to Saint Mark, the apostle and author of one of the four Gospels, who brought the new faith to Egypt.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said al-Rahi will travel to Rome for the Nov. 24 ceremony to officially appoint him as cardinal.
He will attend mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday Nov. 25 and preside mass the next day at the Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome at 6:00 pm.
The pope announced the appointment of al-Rahi last month along with five other non-European cardinals, becoming the fourth patriarch from Lebanon to be chosen as cardinal.
18 November 2012, 09:32
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Please return with some pictures in your luggage your Eminence. Or post them on Picasa (:
18 November 2012, 10:06
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MABROUK. Our Mideast Christians must unite and work together to preserve our existence to OUR ancestral homeland.
18 November 2012, 12:10
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The Pope Benedictvs XVI will be on twitter soon. It was on Yesterday's news here... well, in the European Capital I live in ^^
Our newly elected Cardinal should join as well and embrace this new tech.
18 November 2012, 13:19
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How could anyone put a thumb down to what Kanaandian said, well said Sir we the Canaanites later became Phoenicians,copts, Chaldeans, Assyrians,Arameans are the indigeneous people of the Mideast and preserve our identity despite all the denial from the Arabs.
