Jim Goehring, professor of Classics, Philosophy and Religion, delivered a paper on “The Pachomian Federation and Lower Egypt: The Ties That Bind” at the Saint Mina Monastery Symposium held Feb. 8-12 in Mariut, Egypt. Sponsored by the St. Mark Foundation for Coptic History, the symposium offered Goehring the chance to meet and speak with his holiness Pope Tawadros II, spiritual head of the Coptic Church.