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   2 days ago · According to published accounts and several Coptic/US sources (including the US-Coptic Association), the Coptic Orthodox Church has between 700,000 and one million members in the United States (c. 2005–2007).

   • Germany: 3,000
   • United Arab Emirates: c. 10,000

   • Israel: 1,000 (2014)
   • United Kingdom: 25,000 – 30,000 (2006)

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   What is a Coptic Orthodox Church?

   • Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Oriental Orthodox church and principal Christian church in predominantly Muslim Egypt. The people of Egypt before the Arab conquest in the 7th century identified themselves and their language in Greek as Aigyptios (Arabic qibṭ, Westernized as Copt).

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   What Church do Copts belong to?

   • Most Copts adhere to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, an Oriental Orthodox Church. The smaller Coptic Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church, in communion with the Holy See of Rome; others belong to the Evangelical Church of Egypt.

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   How many members does the Coptic Orthodox Church have?

   • According to published accounts and several Coptic/US sources (including the US-Coptic Association ), the Coptic Orthodox Church has between 700,000 and one million members in the United States (c. 2005–2007).

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   Why are the Coptic Orthodox called Orthodox?

   • In the 19th and 20th centuries they began to call themselves Coptic Orthodox in order to distinguish themselves both from Copts who had converted to Roman Catholicism ( see also Coptic Catholic Church) and from Eastern Orthodox, who are mostly Greek ( see also Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria ).

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5. www.britannica.com › topic › Coptic-Orthodox-ChurchCoptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria | History, Beliefs ...

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   Apr 29, 2024 · The Coptic Orthodox Church developed a democratic system of government after the 1890s. The patriarch and the 12 diocesan bishops, with the assistance of community councils in which the laity is well represented, regulate the finances of the churches and schools and the administration of the rules relating to marriage, inheritance, and other ...

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6. www.biblicalarchaeology.org › what-is-copticWhat Is Coptic? - Biblical Archaeology Society

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   May 10, 2024 · Coptic is the indigenous language of Egypt. Learn about its connection to ancient Christianity and its significance in the Coptic Church.

7. www.britannica.com › biography › Shenouda-IIIShenouda III | Coptic Pope, Egyptian Religious Leader

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   May 6, 2024 · March 17, 2012, Cairo (aged 88) Shenouda III (born August 3, 1923, Asyūṭ, Egypt—died March 17, 2012, Cairo) was the 117th pope of Alexandria and patriarch of the see of St. Mark. As the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, an autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) church of the Oriental Orthodox communion, Shenouda ...

8. americanassociationoficonographers.com › 2024 › 04Coptic Icons – American Association of Iconographers

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   Apr 30, 2024 · The early Coptic icons of the third century Egypt, used encaustic paints and later, influenced by the Byzantine tradition, egg tempera. The Coptic style favors enlarged eyes, frontal figures, and an under emphasis of natural proportions in figures. The figures of saints display eyes and ears larger in proportion to the rest of the face and a ...

9. stbasil.netSt. Basil American Coptic Orthodox Church

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   May 12, 2024 · St. Basil’s American Coptic Orthodox Church strives to share the Orthodox Christian message of our Lord Jesus Christ that He taught, the Apostles preached, and the fathers kept during the two-thousand year history of the Church of Alexandria. It is an all-English parish that is open and welcoming to all and includes services for families ...