On the other hand, the committee on nominations for the papal chair of Saint Mark met at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah to lay an agenda to study the papers of candidates, now 17.

The committee has to cut the number of candidates to only seven in accordance with the 1957 Statute and is expected to announce their names by late July. [Ahmad al-Sa’dāwī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, May 30, p. 1] Read text in Arabic