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As you can gather from our mission statement, St Paul Mission Church was started under the direct guidance and leadership of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
About St. Paul. As the first Coptic Orthodox Church to be established inside the United States for the primary purpose of evangelism, outreach and mission work, the choice of the name was straight forward.
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Jul 11, 2019 · Coptic Christians, or Copts, are members of one of the oldest denominations in Christianity. Learn the origin and meaning of Coptic traditions and beliefs as well as the modern circumstances of their membership worldwide.
Dec 18, 2014 · The Coptic Church of Egypt is the earliest Christian church in the world, going back to around 42 AD. According to Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, as well as Coptic traditions, Saint Mark the evangelist, who wrote the earliest of the four New Testament gospels, was the founder and first bishop of the Church of Alexandria, even before the Church of ...
- St. Mark, The Founder
- St. Mark's Bibliography
- St. Mark and The Lion
- Preaching with The Apostles
- In Africa
- His Martyrdom
- His Apostolic Acts
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. He is regarded by the Coptic hierarchy as the first of their unbroken 117 patriarchs, and also the first of a stream of Egyptian martyrs. This apostolicity was not only furnished on grounds of ...
St. Mark was an African native of Jewish parents who belonged to the Levites' tribe. His family lived in Cyrenaica until they were attacked by some barbarians, and lost their property. Consequently, they moved to Jerusalem with their child John Mark (Acts 12:12, 25; 15:37). Apparently, he was given a good education and became conversant in both Gre...
The vioce of the lion is the symbol of St. Mark for two reasons: 1. He begins his Holy Gospel by describing John the Baptist as a lion roaring in the desert (Mk 1:3). 2. His famous story with lion, as related to us by Severus Ebn-El-Mokafa: Once a lion and lioness appeared to John Mark and his father Arostalis while they were traveling in Jordan. T...
At first, St. Mark accompanied St. Peter on his missionary journeys inside Jerusalem and Judea. Then he accompanied St. Paul and St. Barnabas on their first missionary journey to Antioch, Cyprus and Asia Minor, but for some reason or another he left them and returned home (Acts 13:13). On their second trip, St. Paul refused to take him along becaus...
St. Mark's real labor lays in Africa. He left Rome to Pentapolis, where he was born. After planting the seeds of faith and performing many miracles he traveled to Egypt, through the Oasis, the desert of Libya, Upper Egypt and then entered Alexandria from its eastern gate in 61 A.D. On his arrival, the strap of his sandal was loose. He went to a cob...
In the year 68 AD, Easter fell on the same day as the Serapis feast. The furious heathen mob had gathered in the Serapis temple at Alexandria and then descended on the Christians who were celebrating the Glorous Resurrection at Baucalis. St. Mark was seized, dragged with a rope through the main streets of the city. Crowds were shouting "The ox must...
St. Mark was a broad-minded Apostle. His ministry was quite productive and covered large field of activities. These include: 1. Preaching in Egypt, Pentapolis, Judea, Asia Minor, and Italy during which time he ordained bishops, priests, and deacons. 2. Establishing the "School of Alexandria" which defended Christianity against philosophical school ...
Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Burr Ridge, Illinois, was built in 1982. Its congregation includes roughly three hundred Egyptian families who come regularly from the Chicago Metropolitan area, Southern Wisconsin and Northern Indiana; a 75-mile-radius service area.
The Coptic Orthodox Church was established by Mark, an apostle and evangelist, during the middle of the 1st century (c. AD 42). Due to disputes concerning the nature of Christ , the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Church were in schism after the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, resulting in a conflict with the Greek Orthodox ...
