In a letter addressed to His Holiness, Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, dated Thursday, December 15, 2016, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon expressed “the deep sorrow and shared grief of the Bishops, the clergy, the monastics and the faithful of the Orthodox Church in America” in response to the deadly bomb blast at Cairo’s Saint Peter Church, adjacent to the city’s Coptic Cathedral of Saint Mark, on Sunday, December 11.