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Coptic Pope visits Abbey
Lester Davis photo.LOC Judge Jim Huff presents the visiting Pope with a resolution welcoming the entire delegation on Monday at the LOC Veterans Memorial Airport near George West.
Lester Davis photo.Judge Jim Huff was presented aa religious picture in a commemorative box on Monday when visiting dignitaries of the Coptic church flew in for a visit to their abbey.
LIVE OAK COUNTY – Visiting dignitaries of the Coptic Orthodox church caused a stir at the Veteran’s Memorial Airport where they landed on Monday.
Live Oak County Judge Jim Huff was on hand to present His Holiness Pope Tawadros II with an official resolution proclaiming Oct. 12 as Pope Tawadros Day, “as we recognize his significance to the church and to all Christians.”
Pope Tawadros II is the 118th Pope of Alexandria. He was ordained a monk on July 31, 1988 and ordained a priest in December the following year. The late Pope Shenouda III ordained him a bishop on June 15, 1997, and he was then enthroned as the Pope of Alexandria and Pope of the See of St. Mark in 2012 at the Cathedral of St. Rewies in Abbassiya, Cairo. This visit marks the second time a Coptic pope has visited the abbey, the last time was in 2005 when then Pope Shenouda III came to the monastery.
According to their website, the land on which the Abbey is built near Lake Corpus Christi, was originally founded by the Roman Catholic Church in 1927 as a theological school and faculty residence. In 1961, Pope John XXIII elevated the establishment’s status to that of an abbey naming it the “Corpus Christi Abbey and Benedictine Retreat Center” in which monastic vocations were accepted and fulfilled. For the next four decades, the Abbey would be a place of refuge and retreat for its monks, those they served and the surrounding communities at large.
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