الكنيسة القبطية و التطورات الدستورية و قضايا الأحوال الشخصية في مصر 1952- 1981

الملخص EN

The folds of the search for the issuance of Egypt is a constitutional issue and four constitutions one during the period (1952-1981), and the reasons for issuing a new constitution or constitutional amendment were numerous as a result of the nature of the changes that were amended in an amendment, and among these reasons is to change the system of government from a monarchy and then a republican, It was imperative that there be a temporary constitutional declaration for the functioning of the system that included eleven articles in Egypt restricting itself to more articles, forming a constitution committee, and a mark, and after that, the constitution was issued in 1956, which did not last a year and two months after consumption with Syria in 1958, the Arab unity imposed on it to issue A constitution that fits with unity, and after its end in 1961, Jamal Abdel Nasser aimed to promulgate a constitution in 1964 and concentrate power in his hands, The important thing is that the Coptic Church represented by Patriarch Yusap II (1946-1956) and Patriarch Kyrollos VI (1959-1971) almost went with the system, as long as the constitutions issued during their covenants did not focus on what threatening Copts or affecting their rights.

Sadat intended at the beginning of his rule to issue a constitution to get rid of the Nasserite legacy, so it was appointed Church appointed bishops to be its representatives in the constitution-writing committees, and they submitted proposals for some amendments, some of which were taken and the other rejected.

As for the amendment that was made in 1979, the Church rejected it as it focused on the Islamism of the constitution and the source of Islam only for legislation, and justified this rejection by fear of the application of extremists and their interpretations of the Islamic texts in the constitution, and the threat of this to the presence of Copts in Egypt, especially with the rise of the extremist tide by some Islamic groups.

The personal status problem and the legal amendments that occurred to it was one of the continuing problems between the church and the authority, and Patriarch Shenouda III represented a stubborn opponent of the authority in objecting to divorce outside the church, and he rejected the Personal Status Law issued in 1955, so he presented to the National Assembly with the rest of the Christian bishops a bill regarding marriage Christians and their divorce, but it was not approved during the study period due to the killing of Sadat on 6 October 1981.