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Pope Shenouda receives Anglican primates in Alexandria

Posted On : February 1, 2009 12:20 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
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Following a private meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan
Williams, His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, the Coptic Pope, received the
Primates of the Anglican Communion at the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate
in Alexandria on Saturday evening, 31 January. The Primates are meeting
in Alexandria in the latest of their series of regular meetings.

In thanking Pope Shenouda for his warm welcome and hospitality the
Archbishop of Canterbury drew attention to the significance of meeting
together in the city where many of the universal doctrines of the
Christian faith were formed and where the seeds of the Christian
monastic movement had been sown in the third century.

Pope Shenouda welcomed the Primates.  Bishops, he said, had a special
responsibility to guide their people in the path of holiness. Engaging
with the young was particularly important. The Coptic Church in Cairo
alone was providing Sunday school education to between 30 and 40,000
children. He also gave an account of the resurgence of the Coptic
monasteries in Egypt. There were more than twenty communities with over
100 monks each.

Bishop Mouneer Anis, Anglican bishop in Egypt and Primate of the
Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East thanked Pope Shenouda for his
generosity and paid tribute to his extraordinary teaching ministry based
at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo.

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