Topic: Liturgy - St Cyril VI

[Mor Ephrem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O06mE21xiM

Does anyone know what the occasion was?  In addition to St Cyril, I see HH Jacob III of Antioch and I think the Indian Catholicos is somewhere in there as well (I could've sworn hearing his name commemorated...anyway, I definitely saw an Indian priest scurry across the sanctuary at one point).  There seem to be a lot of non-Orthodox guests as well. 

[Orthodox11]

Ras Tafari is there as well. I guess it's one of the pan-Oriental Orthodox conferences he arranged. I think it took place in January 1965. His address to the Conference is available somewhere online.

[kijabeboy03]

Ras Tafari is there as well. I guess it's one of the pan-Oriental Orthodox conferences he arranged. I think it took place in January 1965. His address to the Conference is available somewhere online.

*Emperor Haile Silase ("ras" is a noble rank and "Teferi" was His Majesty's birth name)

[minasoliman]

No...I believe this was the inaugural liturgy of the new St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo.

At the time, there were two OO patriarchs with the name "Baselius".  The one commemorated was most probably the Ethiopian patriarch.  We Copts seem to have a habit to name all the patriarchs of Africa as well as the Syriac patriarch due to the very close relationship those two churches had.

[minasoliman]

Here's a digitally remastered video with better audio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yF_zjxtFsQ