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This article explains that the patriarchal chair should only be filled by a qualified person who is elected according to the laws of the church.
The author deals with the future prospects of the church after Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, and the possibility that the next pope could come from outside Egypt.
The author in this article wonders whether the idea of the Catholic patriarch’s resignation could be applicable in the situation of the Egyptian Orthodox church.
The author, who is the press advisor of Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, reviews some of the Pope’s main characteristics.
The article outlines some of the 18-article statute on the election of a patriarch in accordance with the republican decree of 1957.
The articles that regulate the election of the Coptic patriarch are unconstitutional and violate the laws of the Apostles as well as the church law which obliges all Copts to choose their pastor.
The Coptic community wonders who will succeed Pope Shenouda after illness strikes him? Although regulations stipulating the transfer of church power will give bishops, monks and priests the opportunity to stand for elections, elections are now confined only to general bishops.
A tense relationship exists between the Pope and emigrant Christians because they used to oppose the systems of the state and the president and they do not submit to the Pope’s opinions.
The Church is witnessing some secret moves to pass a new regulation for papal elections. Informed sources close to the Church say that the modifications in the new regulation will tighten the grip of certain people over the church and will bring one of them to the papacy.
Pope Shenouda recently stated that the 1957 regulation is fair, yet it may stand as an obstacle before persons with good qualifications and well-know names who became monks a few years ago, as the regulation stipulates that a candidate to the papal chair should have spent 15 years as a monk. Any...

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