NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria

His Holiness Patriach Theodoros II of Alexandria is the current Eastern Orthodox Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria. He was elected following the death of Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria in a helicopter crash. On Sunday 24 October, His Beatitude was enthroned as the new Pope and Patriarch in the Patriarchal Cathedral in Alexandria in the presence of other Orthodox prelates, politicians and representatives of the various religious communities in Egypt.

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	Patriarch Theodore (Theodoros) II of Alexandria (born Nikolaos Horeftakis on November 25, 1954) is the current Eastern Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa.
	In 1997 he was appointed Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria by Patriarch Petros VII to assist him at the outset of his Patriarchate and after ten months he was elected as Metropolitan of Cameroon.
	In the wake of the death of Patriarch Petros and other senior bishops in a helicopter crash in the Aegean Sea, Theodore was unanimously elected on October 9, 2004 by the Synod of the Alexandrian Throne as Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa.

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