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Vatican City, Jan 18, 2013 \/ 03:00 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Benedict XVI approved Bishop Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak as the new Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts in Egypt, granting him \"ecclesiastical communion.''<\/p>\n

\tThe former Bishop of Minya was elected during a Synod of Bishops of the Coptic Catholic Church in Cairo, which lasted from Jan. 12 to16. As part of the election, his rank was raised to archbishop.<\/p>\n

\tThe 57-year-old will replace Cardinal Antonio Naguib, aged 77, who resigned on Jan. 18 after suffering from partial paralysis and undergoing brain surgery.<\/p>\n

\tThe Vatican hopes his appointment will see more collaboration with Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, who began his patriarchal ministry in Egypt just two months ago.<\/p>\n

\tAnd the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land, including the heads of the Roman, Melkite, Maronite, Syrian, Armenian and Chaldean Rites, all offered a formal welcome to the new leader.<\/p>\n

\t\"The international press has called you a 'young patriarch,'\" they said in a letter dated Jan. 18.<\/p>\n

\t\"We are sure that with this 'youth' you will be a point of reference within the Council of Oriental Catholic Patriarchs and the Ecumenical Council of the Churches and for the Church of Egypt,\" they added.<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop Sidrak was born in Assiut, Egypt, and studied philosophy and theology at a Coptic seminary in Cairo.<\/p>\n

\tHe was ordained a priest on Feb. 7, 1980 and incarnated in the Eparchy of Assiut.<\/p>\n

\tHe served two years in the Church Michael the Archangel in Cairo before moving to Rome where he received a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University.<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop Sidrak returned to Egypt where he taught theology at his seminary, the Patriarchal Seminary of Maadi.<\/p>\n

\tHe was elected Bishop of Minya in 2002 after working as rector of the seminary and as secretary general for the Coptic Catholic Church's office for catechetical teaching.<\/p>\n

\tThe Egyptian is the second bishop of Minya \u2013 an area south of Cairo holding one-fifth of the country's estimated 200,000 Copts \u2013 to be elected patriarch.<\/p>\n

\tHis ministry as bishop was marked by his efforts to help farmers and people in need, regardless of their faith, through increased social and charitable activities in the villages of the diocese.<\/p>\n

\tThe Coptic Catholic Church was established in 1824 and there are five parishes in the United States and in Canada.<\/p>\n

\tEgypt now has two heads of Churches \u2013 Archbishop Sidra and the Coptic Orthodox leader Pope Tawadros II.<\/p>\n

\tOver 10 percent of Egyptians are Copts, which makes them the largest Christian minority in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\tThe Orthodox and Coptic leaders will surely be discussing the saftey of Egyptian Christians, which became a topic of concern after President Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood Party and radical Salafis took up power in the country.<\/p>\n

\tChristians also fear that the recently approved constitution will fail to protect them.<\/p>\n

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