Bishop Naguib Replaces Cardinal Stephanos II Gatas as Patriarch of Alexandria.
Cardinal Stephanos II Ghattas, 86, presented his resignation to Benedict XVI, the Vatican press office announced today.
The new patriarch, 71, was elected by the Synod of Bishops of the Catholic Coptic Church, meeting in St. Joseph’s Convent of the Egyptian Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Cairo on March 20, as established by the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.
The Pope has given assent to the election.
