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3 days ago · The Coptic Orthodox Church (Coptic: Ϯⲉⲕ̀ⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲛ̀ⲟⲣⲑⲟⲇⲟⲝⲟⲥ, romanized: Ti-eklisia en-remenkimi en-orthodhoxos, lit. 'the Egyptian Orthodox Church'), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt.
- 10 million
- St. Mark the Evangelist (Traditional)
Apr 29, 2024 · 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).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 3, 2024 · Copt, a member of Egypt’s indigenous Christian ethno-religious community. The terms Copt and Coptic are variously used to denote either the members of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the largest Christian body in Egypt
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · Copts (Coptic: ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, romanized: niremənkhēmi; Arabic: الْقِبْط, romanized: al-qibṭ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity.
- 3,000
- c. 10,000
- 1,000 (2014)
- 25,000 – 30,000 (2006)
Apr 20, 2024 · The Coptic Orthodox Church, which honors St. Mark as its founder, claims to be one of the oldest denominations of Christianity. Because it rejected the 451 Council of Chalcedon, the Coptic Orthodox Church does not recognize the Catholic pope and instead has its own pope, who is the bishop of Alexandria and claims apostolic succession from St. Mark.
3 days ago · Coptic Egyptian emerged as a distinct language in the third century and for about two centuries it coexisted with Demotic. Although the Old Coptic experiments with the Greek alphabet took place in the circles of traditional (“pagan”) temple administration and education, the alphabetic writing system was embraced and proliferated by the early Church for writing Christian scriptures, likely ...
May 5, 2024 · The Coptic Orthodox Church believes that the Holy Trinity: God The Father, God The Son, and God The Holy Spirit, are equal to each other in one unity; and that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only Savior of the world.
