The Holy Synod decided to approve the bylaw in principle the text is attached in Appendix No. 17-Aand if it is necessary to amend the result of the practical work of consecrated female servants and th...

The report of the Pastoral Care and Service Committee was read regarding the consecration of women, its rituals and the areas of their services (attached as amended in Annex no. 17-B) and the followin...

The Synod approved the proposed ritual of the Sub-Deaconess, and His Holiness the Pope said that the laws of the Apostles speak of the consecration of Readers, Sub-Deaconesses and Deaconesses, and the...

In the meeting on 05/03/1993

In its report, the Church Relations Committee presented to the Holy Synod that, in the first meeting in the period between 02-05/05/1993 in the Monastery of St. Bishoy in t...

In the meeting on 01/06/1996

There was a brief mention of the meeting between us and the Church of Sweden, which represented our Church Their Graces: Bishop Bishoy, Bishop Moses, Bishop Thomas, and als...

The Holy Synod, headed by His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, approved the ritual of consecrating a full Deaconess presented by the Ritual Committee after making some amendments to it. Provided that the p...

In the meeting on 17/06/1989

Following the decisions of the Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Churches held in Canterbury in 1988, the Holy Synod decided to denounce the decisions of this conference r...

In the meeting on 21/06/1986

The following was decided:

Regarding the theological dialogue with the Catholics and the letter of Cardinal Wille Brands to His Holiness the Pope, requesting the removal of ...

It is prohibited for young girls, female children or female youths to wear special uniforms in the liturgical prayers, or stand like a choir at the front of the women’s pews to chant hymns during litu...