Original sentence: Patriarch Mael I died on Sunday 20 July 2014 after a long illness patiently borne.The French and other members who rejected joining the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, remaining faithful to their status as the continuing Church founded by Mar Julius, assumed the title of the French Eparchy: L'Eglise Orthodoxe Celtique (the Celtic Orthodox Church - officially the Celtic Apostolic Church) to indicate that its jurisdiction covered the area of the former Celtic missions
Edited sentence: Patriarch Mael I reposed on Sunday 20 July 2014 after a long illness patiently borne (memory eternal).The French and other members who rejected the opportunity to join the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, remaining faithful to their status as the continuing Church founded by Mar Julius, assumed the title of the French Eparchy: L'Eglise Orthodoxe Celtique (the Celtic Orthodox Church - officially the Celtic Apostolic Church) to indicate that its jurisdiction covered the area of the former Celtic missions.[NB For those unfamiliar with Orthodox terminology, we say reposed instead of died, and make the prayer 'Memory Eternal' - in full: May his/her memory be eternal