Egyptian justice is eliminated as the monks of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai, with a decision that constitutes a monument of hypocrisy and sacred, as it is a monastery with a history of 15 centuries.
The court’s ruling rejects the request of the 9 -year -old Archbishop Sinai Damianos to be recognized as a legal owner of the monastery’s building complex – as the monastery is not a legal person – arguing that he does not have … titles of property, either because the documents he was referred to in!
Indeed, the decision states that there was intervention (against the interests of the monastery) by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, as well as the President of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
See the Egyptian Court of Justice (in informal translation)
Appellate decision
Case Number: 226/228 for the year 2015 – Opposition 32
Date: Wednesday, May 28 2025
Court: Civil Court
Court’s composition:
President: Abdel Mustafa Alaa El-Razek
Members: Ahmet Hassanin, Abu Amir El-Lill
Secretary: Mohammed El-Said Helmi
Provisions of the decision:
Acceptance of the formal appeal.
Rejection of appeal exercised by a person without legal status (meaning Archbishop Damian)
Acceptance of the intervention of the Minister of Culture and the President of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Rejecting his lawsuit (Archbishop Damianos) on the Egyptian Mapping Authority and the South Sinai mapping service, due to a lack of legal status of the defendants.
Cancellation of the Primary Decision on the secondary request, and issuing a new decision, ie:
Acceptance of the secondary request of the plaintiffs.
Rejection of the allegation (of the Archbishop) over the lack of a legitimate interest of the plaintiffs.
Rejection of the main action (of the Archbishop) as a non -beneficiary.
Rejection of the defendant’s request (the startingist) for acquiring ownership of disputed land with use.
Acceptance of the request (of the monastery’s opposing) to eliminate the defendant from the other real estate.
More specific provisions
First:
Rejection of the lawsuit (of the Archbishop) regarding specific pieces of land due to a lack of proof of possession or legal use by the defendant.
Second:
Rejection of the lawsuit (of the Archbishop) for religious facilities and monuments such as:
Church of Aaron
Monastery of Agia Catherine and enclosure
Church
St. Theodoros
St. Stylianos Church and adjacent lonely residences
Holy Trinity
Rooms in Mount Sinai (geographical location 1 and 2)
Churches: Agios Ioannis, Agios Grigorios, Agios Panteleimonas, Agia Anna, Holy Economy, the stone of Moses, etc.
Thirdly:
Rejection of the lawsuit (of the Archbishop) for real estate with private sales prevails, because the legal validity of the contracts and the actual check of the pieces by the plaintiff was not sufficiently proved.
Fourth:
Acceptance of the request for the elimination of the defendant from the other properties, which are detailed in an expert report deposited in court, including agricultural land and building infrastructure.
Fifth:
Imposition of compensation in favor of the plaintiffs, due to the illegal use of immovable property by the defendant and allocation of the costs and fees of lawyer (75 Egyptian pounds) between the parties, under the responsibility of each appellant for the costs of appealing the other …