Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, returned to Cairo coming from Austria, after participating in the meeting of PRO-ORIENTA organization at the 50 anniversary of its foundation.
His Holiness has also met with the Austrian President Hanz Fischer at the presidential palace.
During the visit, the Pope had inaugurated a new church southern Austria and ordained the first monk at St. Antony monastery in Austria.