{"id":43126,"date":"2016-03-07T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=43126"},"modified":"2016-03-07T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T08:46:13","slug":"mar-yulios-pope-tawadros-ii-of-the-coptic-orthodox-church-to-meet-on-march-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=43126","title":{"rendered":"Mar Yulios-Pope Tawadros II, of the Coptic Orthodox Church, to meet on March 9 \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mar-Yulios-Pope-Tawadros-II.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43127\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mar-Yulios-Pope-Tawadros-II-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mar Yulios-Pope Tawadros II\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mar-Yulios-Pope-Tawadros-II-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mar-Yulios-Pope-Tawadros-II-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mar-Yulios-Pope-Tawadros-II.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">CAIRO: Ahmedabad Diocese Metropolitan HG Pullikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios will hold talks with Pope Tawadros II, the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church,\u00a0Alexandria and\u00a0Patriarch of the See of St Mark,\u00a0on March 9, Wednesday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Indian Orthodox Metropolitan is on a 10-day maiden visit to Egypt, the base of the Coptic Orthodox Church.\u00a0The visit undertaken during the Lenten season will help further boost the ecumenical ties between the two traditional Oriental Orthodox churches.\u00a0The meeting is scheduled to take place\u00a0at the Holy See of St Mark, Alexandria.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">During the visit, Dr Mar Yulios will be based at the St Anthony&#8217;s monastery, a\u00a0Coptic Orthodox monastery standing in an oasis in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, in the southern part of the Suez Governorate. His Grace will also deliver lectures on theology at the monastery and experience monastery life and take part in spiritual retreat seasons.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Metropolitan will also visit the St Mark Cathedral in Alexandria, the St Mark Cathedral in Cairo, St Anthony Monastery and several other locations like the famous Coptic hanging church or the St Mary&#8217;s Church and the St Makarious nunnery at Old Cairo.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Earlier, upon arrival at the Cairo International Airport airport on March 6, the Metropolitan was received by Aboona Markose and Hani representing the Coptic Orthodox Church. Rijo Geevarghese, a spiritual son of the Bishop, presently pursuing iconography studies at\u00a0The Institute of Coptic Studies\u00a0in Caro, nephew Ginu Panakal and Mrs Panakal.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mar Yulios was invited by\u00a0Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Church (Heliopolis) for the 10-day visit.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Ahmedabad Diocese Metropolitan HG Pullikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios will hold talks with Pope Tawadros II, the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church,\u00a0Alexandria and\u00a0Patriarch of the See of St &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-news","category-ecumenical-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43128,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43126\/revisions\/43128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}