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Centre of the Coptic Church. Sep. 2019. St Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral is named after St Mark the evangelist, founder of the Coptic Church. It is the seat of the Coptic Pope. The catdhedral is of relatrively recent construction, even though the Coptic Church is one of the oldest denominations in the world.
St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral is located in the Abbassia District in Cairo, Egypt. It is the current seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope. It was built during the time when Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria was Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church and inaugurated by Pope Cyril in 1968. Historically the land where the Cathedral stands has been used for centuries as a cemetery for the Copts; this ...
When Saint Mark entered and walked through the streets of Alexandria, the most famous city in Egypt, his sandals were torn. While Ananias the cobbler was mending Saint Mark’s shoes, his finger was cut from the awl and he cried out: “O the one god!”. Saint Mark healed the cobbler’s finger and spoke to him about who the “One God ...
Mar 2023. This is the Cathedral of the Coptic Church and seat of the current Coptic Pope Tawadros II. It is a complex of many building. We were so fortunate that our driver was Coptic and took us to see this entire complex in a suburb of Cairo. There is a small burial church with four Popes next to the fence of this cathedral.
Additional info. Founded by St. Mark the Evangelist in 60 AD, the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Mark in Alexandria is considered a Cathedral as it is the historical seat of the Pope of Alexandria, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church. As such, it is considered the Holy See of St. Mark the Apostle and the seat of His Holiness the Pope of ...
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The Coptic Church or the Church of Alexandria is called "Sees of St. Mark"; one of the earliest four sees: Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome. St. Mark, The Founder The Copts are proud of the apostolicity of their Church, whose founder is St. Mark; one of the seventy Apostles (Mk 10:10), and one of the four Evangelists.
