On Saturday 22 July, HH Pope Tawadros II held a funeral service for Anba Sawiris at al-Boutrossiya church in Abbassiya, Cairo. Assiut Governor Yasser Dessouqi was there to offer condolences to Pope Tawadros and the Coptic Church on his behalf and on that of the people of Assiut. A large number of Coptic Orthodox bishops Church attended; as did the Coptic Catholic Bishop of Assiut, Anba Kyrillos William, and the bishops who head non-Egyptian Churches in Egypt.