Today (Thursday), H.H. Pope Tawadros II extended his greetings to His Holiness Patriarch Theodoros II, Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa of the Greek Orthodox Church, on the occasion of the Glorious Feast of the Nativity, which is celebrated today according to the Western calendar.

This afternoon, His Holiness visited the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in the Hamzawi district of Cairo, accompanied by an ecclesiastical delegation, where he conveyed his greetings to His Beatitude the Patriarch and the metropolitans on this occasion.

Expressions of congratulations and mutual affection were exchanged between His Holiness the Pope and His Beatitude the Patriarch.
His Beatitude presented Pope Tawadros with a gift—an icon depicting the Fathers of the Council of Nicaea—while His Holiness offered him a model of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, inscribed with the text of the Nicene Creed, with each phrase written in a different living language.

The delegation accompanying His Holiness included H.E. Metropolitan Danial (Metropolitan of Maadi), H.G. Bishop Yolios (General Bishop of Old Cairo and the Bishopric of Services), H.G. Bishop Angelos (General Bishop of the Churches of Northern Shoubra), H.G. Bishop Marcos (Bishop of Damietta, Kafr El-Sheikh, and the Barrari region and Assistant Secretary of the Holy Synod), the monk Father Emmanuel Al-Muharraqi (Director of the Office of His Holiness the Pope), Hegumen Moussa Ibrahim (the official spokesperson of the Church), Dr. Girgis Saleh (Honorary Secretary-General of the Middle East Council of Churches) and Deacon Joseph Reda (from the Secretariat of His Holiness).

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