Cairo (CNN) -- Egypt's Coptic Christians picked a new leader Sunday, a process that involved a blindfolded boy choosing one of three names in a crystal chalice.
Bishop Tawadros Theodorus II -- the nation's 118th Coptic Pope -- replaces the former leader who died in March.
The death of Pope Shenouda III sparked anxiety in the embattled minority group in Egypt's Muslim majority.
Thousands of people flooded into a Cairo Cathedral in March to bid farewell to the 88-year-old pope who led the nation's Coptic Christians for about four decades.
