New pope of Egypt’s Coptic Christians chosen

Bishop Tawadros has been chosen as the new pope of Egypt’s Coptic Christians, becoming leader of the largest Christian minority in the Middle East.

His name was selected from a glass bowl by a blindfolded boy at a ceremony in Cairo’s St Mark’s Cathedral. Three candidates had been shortlisted.


The 60-year-old succeeds Pope Shenouda III, who died in March aged 88.

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