Bishop Pachomius, caretaker of the Egyptian Coptic Church shows the ballot bearing the name of Bishop Tawadros in Arabic. His name was picked by a blindfolded altar boy from a chalice, as new Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christians, during a ceremony at Saint Mark's Coptic Cathedral, in Cairo. Illustration: Photograph: Mahmud Khaled/AFP/Getty Images
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