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According to Coptic tradition, Zeitoun is near one of the locations where the Holy Family stayed during their flight into Egypt. The patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Pope Kyrillos VI appointed a committee of high-ranking priests and bishops to investigate the matter, directed by Bishop Gregorios, bishop of postgraduate ...
Jun 19, 2003 · St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Misr El-Gadedah - Cairo, Egypt St. Mary & St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Haret Zewela - Cairo, Egypt St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church, Masarra - Cairo, Egypt (Another page)
Apr 17, 2017 · The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and the most significant Christian leader in Egypt, is the bishop of the See of St. Mark, known among Egyptians as the Coptic pope or patriarch.
Jun 19, 2003 · St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Misr El-Gadedah - Cairo, Egypt St. Mary & St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Haret Zewela - Cairo, Egypt St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church, Masarra - Cairo, Egypt (Another page)
St. Simon the Tanner Monastery (Cave Church) Location: Moqattam, Cairo. Established: 1975. This awesome cave church (or technically, ‘churches’ -- the St. Simon monastery complex has seven churches) is unlike anything else we have in Egypt. Carved into the Moqattam Hills, the main monastery hall can hold over 20,000 people and was named ...
Apr 19, 2019 · According to Coptic tradition, the Christian church in Egypt was founded in Alexandria by St. Mark in the mid-first century A.D. Author of the second gospel in the New Testament, Mark became ...
Oct 25, 2005 · Background. Christians make up 10-20 percent of Egypt's population of seventy-seven million, though precise estimates of the number of Copts vary widely. By any account, they represent by far the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Around 90 percent of Christians in Egypt belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church; other Egyptian ...
