II was received with great enthusiasm in Budapest. Pope Tawadros, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt. With a population of 10 million, the church is the oldest Christian denomination and today the largest Christian community in the Middle East.
The majority of many Coptic Christians living in other parts of the world have left their homeland due to the political events in the Middle East in recent decades and have found a new home in Hungary, for example, as well as Australia.
On Monday evening, the head of the church celebrated Mass in the Hungarian Coptic Church, where the faithful were waiting for him with great enthusiasm.
One young believer said, “I can’t even tell you how happy I am, it’s incredible for me. It was like that 12 years ago, but then I was in Egypt, but now I can take part in it.” Merola Najeeb.
A young man named Imad said.
According to the leader of the Coptic community in Hungary, Bishop Khalil Youssef, they should be grateful that the second Coptic Pope has visited them in 12 years:
“This is a great opportunity for us, we are very happy and fortunate that two Coptic Popes have already been invited by the Hungarian government to visit this young Coptic community. This is a spiritual message for us. I always ask our community to think about it.” This is because there is no longer an opportunity for a visit by the head of the church, because he is very busy, and the head of the church is visiting us for the second time.
The patron saint of Hungary is a Coptic saint
And on the national holiday of August 20, the Pope visited the Church of the Rock on Gellert Hill, where the Pauline Monastery is also located. The Paul Order is the only male monastic order founded in Hungary. According to the order’s representative, Father Gyorvi Zabolcs, there is a lively spiritual relationship between the Coptic Church and Hungary:
“We have a very clear and clear spiritual relationship with the Copts, and this is thanks to St. Pal the Hermit and our order.
– It is to explain. “And we have living testimony of that as a matter. To this day, when we recite the Divine Liturgy, we always mention the name of St. Paul the Hermit.”
secondly. On Monday, Tavdros was inaugurated Honorary Doctor of Pazmani Peter Catholic University. Geza Kominetz, Dean of the University, presented the honorary degree to the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church. secondly. He thanked Tavadros for the honorary doctorate, and said that the university recognizes the meritorious activities of the Coptic Church in Egypt and throughout the world.
Deputy Prime Minister Zolt Simgen, who is also in charge of church relations, told reporters after the ceremony: “Hungarian-Egyptian relations are excellent, not only in economic and political terms, but also in cultural, intellectual and spiritual terms.” . The proof of this is the second. Tavdruz visit to Hungary.
More and more Copts are finding their home in Hungary
One of the main organizers of the life of the growing Coptic community in Hungary is the Coptic Christian Church in Budapest, built in the first decade of the 21st century, in which many children born here have already been baptized.
advertisementOur correspondent explained that “the first batch of Coptic Christians arrived in Hungary in the sixties.” “The community has now swelled to several hundred people, and many children have already been born on Hungarian soil. The last time a Coptic Pope visited Hungary was 12 years ago, so the current visit is of great importance to the congregation.”
