Participating in the Holy Mass celebrated by Pope Francis this morning at 7 o’clock in the Domus Sanctae Marthae Chapel was the Patriarch of Alexandria of the Coptic Catholics, H.B. Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, who received the ecclesiastica communio from Pope Benedict XVI last January 18. Concelebrating also with the Holy Father and the Coptic Patriarch was Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

Dec 09, 2013 00:00

ZENIT Staff

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