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The funeral of Pope Shenouda III in photos

by | 20th, March 2012

IN Photos – Pope Shenouda III (born: Nazeer Gayedhas) been laid to rest at the Saint Bishoy monastery in Wadi Natroun, northwest of Cairo, Egypt. President Sadat exiled Shenouda to the Monastery of St Bishoy in the 1970s as tensions between Muslism ad Coptic rose. The leader of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church sought to protect his flock from Muslim extremists, who have in recent years renews attacks the Christian Coptic community. He was 88. His funeral was spectacular:

Note: Three mourners suffocated inside Cairo’s main Abbasiya cathedral as tens of thousands of mourners gathered yesterday to catch a glimpse of Pope Shenouda III’s embalmed corpse. Pope Shenuda’s body had been placed upright on display on a wooden throne in a Cairo cathedral. Pictures of that are here.

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Egyptian senior clerics gather to pay their final respects during the funeral of Pope Shenouda III at the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Tens of thousands of Egypt's Coptic Christians are taking part in a funeral mass led by senior clerics for the death of their patriarch, Pope Shenouda III, at the main cathedral in Cairo. Shenouda died on Saturday at age 88 after spending 40 years at the helm of the Coptic Orthodox Church. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)



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