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Next Thursday: Nominations Committee decides the date of the papal elections

by Girgis Tawfik

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Tuesday ,16 October 2012

Next Thursday: Nominations Committee decides the date of the papal elections

Nominations Committee of the papal elections holds the first meeting after announcing the final list of candidates, headed by Abba Pachomius, the acting patriarch, at St. Mark Cathedral in Abbassiya next Thursday to decide when the papal election is going to be.

Source added that it depends mainly on giving the Coptic Christian congregation a chance to get to know the papal candidates closely before the elections.