HH Pope Tawadros II Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the see of Saint Mark opened the 8th International Conference of St. Mark Coptic history Study Foundation at St. Bishoy monastery in Wadi Natrun, which lasts until next Thursday.
The confernce is entitled “Christianity and monasticism in Alexandria, Eastern and Western Sahara” and a number of professors and scholars of Coptic history and heritage in Egypt and the world are lecturing it.