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 care for their affairs. His Holiness the Pope has chosen two Eritrean monks who are graduates of the Seminary of Cairo, one of whom has served in the Church of the Virgin Mary in Chicago for the Orthodox Copts in the United States of America for a year and a half, and the second has a church abroad in England. It was decided that they will be ordained as general bishops in our Coptic Church.

Published Date

25 May 1991

Chapter

11. Eritrea

Keywords

Consecrations & Ordinations, Pastoral Care, Sister & Daughter Churches

Related Decrees

  1. Agreement to ordain 5 further Bishops for the Church of Eritrea
  2. Elevation of HG Bishop Morcos and HG Bishops Athansius of France
  3. Establishment of the British Orthodox Church
  4. Ethipian Orthodox Church's hostility with the Church of Eritrea
  5. Judgment of priests, rejecting revolving priests, and ordaining sufficient priests
  6. Ordination of 5 Bishops for the Church of Eritrea and formation of Eritrean Holy Synod
  7. Ordination of the Patriarch of Eritrea and agreement of the Protocol
  8. Agreement of Protocol with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
  9. Amendment and approval of text of pledge for monks
  10. Amendments and approval of rituals regarding the consecration of women