EGYPT'S ancient Coptic Christian Church has chosen a new pope in an elaborate Sunday ceremony meant to invoke the will of God, in which a blindfolded boy drew the name of the next patriarch from a crystal chalice.
Bishop Tawadros, 59, an aide to the acting pope, was selected to become Pope Tawadros II, replacing the charismatic Pope Shenouda III who died earlier this year after 40 years at the helm of the church.
All three senior clerics whose names were in the chalice were considered consensus candidates who stayed out of disputes both within the church and with other groups.
Tawadros will assume the papacy as Egypt's Christians, estimated to make up 10 per cent of the country's 83 million people, fear for their future amid the rise of Islamists to power after the 2011 ousting of long-time authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak.
The death of Pope Shenouda III heightened the sense of insecurity felt by many who had known him as patriarch for all or most of their lives.
At the televised ceremony held in the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, acting Pope Pachomios laid the three names in clear balls inside a chalice before starting Mass.
There was a moment of silence before the drawing by the blindfolded boy, an act believed to reflect God's will in the choice.
"We will pray that God will choose the good shepherd," Pachomios told the packed cathedral as he sealed the chalice with red wax before laying it on the altar during Mass.
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