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Importance of service parts that receive less service

His Holiness Pope Shenouda III appealed to the members of the Holy Synod to take care in serving the countryside, the new areas and the offshoot regions, otherwise they would be food for other sects t...

Agreement to ordain the first 2 Bishops for the Church of Eritrea

His Holiness the Pope explained the need of our Eritrean sons abroad, who do not receive pastoral care from the Ethiopian Church, who resorted to His Holiness, asking that he appoint pastors who will ...

Increasing meetings to promote service

  1. His Holiness the Pope said: It is possible to organise meetings for His Holiness with Priests of all Dioceses, to speak in matters of pastoral care, faith and education.
  2. The possibility of grouping peo...

Care for the Diocese of Sinai

His Grace Bishop Ignatius has requested that pastoral care should be provided to Sinai with the ordination of a Bishop for it before it is lost from us: Dahab and Nuweiba, Ras Sidr, South of Sinai, To...

Coordination of Church Education (Sunday School)

  1. His Holiness the Pope spoke about the efforts of the Supreme Committee for Church Education in issuing unified curricula, as well as the desire of His Holiness to reopen the Institute for Pastoral Car...

Rejection of the concept of "rotating priests"

The Synod rejected the idea of a "rotating priest", which is the idea that all priests pass through all churches in a city, periodically, free of specifying a church and a diocese for each of them. Th...

Efforts towards creating new resources for preaching and education

  1. The Holy Synod agreed that the Diocese of El Behera and the Youth Episcopate are to publish a series of simplified books, in a question and answer manner, in the topics of faith, doctrine, spiritual l...

Agreement to ordain 5 further Bishops for the Church of Eritrea

Five heads of monasteries in Eritrea were chosen for ordination as bishops, and they were sent to Egypt to undertake studies and to get acquainted with the Coptic Church, and these candidates were cho...

Ordination of 5 Bishops for the Church of Eritrea and formation of Eritrean Holy Synod

  1. It was agreed that the ordination of the 5 bishops will take place St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, in the residence the throne of St. Mark, provided that the Eritrea Church enthrones them there. Then e...

Pastoral care for congregants who have travelled abroad

A Priest does not have the right to travel to another country to offer pastoral care to the members of his congregation that have travelled [settled] there. It is the Bishop of the Diocese who is resp...