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This article, dealing with the Coptic Orthodox Church in Africa, is about the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria in African countries other than Egypt.
The Apostolic Throne of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is based in the ancient Alexandria, Egypt, which is in Africa. The jurisdiction of the Church of Alexandria extended, as per Canon law of the First and Second Ecumenical Councils, to the Province of Egypt, Nubia and Pentapolis. Later on in expanded south to encompass all of what is now known as the Sudan.
Since the demise of the Latin (Roman) North African Archiepiscopate of Carthage (which covered all of North and West Africa, apart from Egypt, Pentapolis and Libya) in the 8th century, Alexandria became the sole Apostolic Throne in the entire continent of Africa (or what was known of it at that time). The historical evangelization of the Apostolic Throne of Alexandria in Africa, apart from Egypt, Pentapolis, Libya, Nubia and the Sudan, does extend to:
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East and North Africa (MENA). They make up the largest percentage of approximately 20 million Christians in Egypt. The CopticOrthodoxChurch was established...
leader of the CopticOrthodoxChurch, with ancient Christian roots in Egypt. The primacy in the Coptic pope, similar to the Catholic belief in the Bishop...
the Churchin the 1st century, and marked the beginning of Christianity inAfrica. The CopticOrthodoxChurch is one of the Oriental Orthodoxchurches (not...
The CopticOrthodoxChurch of Alexandria is the official name for the largest Christian churchin Egypt. The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family...
The CopticOrthodoxChurch of Alexandria has many churches and congregations in the continent of Asia. All of the CopticOrthodox Eparchies in the Sinai...
adherents of the CopticOrthodoxChurch, began migrating to the United States of America in the late 1940s. After 1952, the rate of Coptic immigration from...
The CopticOrthodoxChurch has many churches and congregations in Europe and on 2 June 1974 Pope Shenouda III received into the CopticOrthodox Patriarchate...
follow, and in general, this was to be the case throughout North America in the coming decades. With hundreds of CopticOrthodoxchurchesin the United...
The French CopticOrthodoxChurch (French: Métropole copte orthodoxe de France) is a CopticOrthodox jurisdiction centered in France. Coptic immigration...
all Africa'), also known as the Greek OrthodoxChurch of Alexandria, is an autocephalous patriarchate that is part of the Eastern OrthodoxChurch. Its...
Copticchurch may refer to: The CopticOrthodoxChurch, a churchin the Oriental Orthodox communion The Coptic Catholic Church, one of the Eastern Catholic...
Alexandria, Pope of the CopticOrthodoxChurch, after Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1993. Thus, the Eritrean Church accords a primacy of...
The CopticOrthodoxChurchin Australia is organised into two CopticOrthodox dioceses with over 50 parishes, three monasteries, two theological colleges...
The Oriental Orthodox communion is led by its standing conference in which six churches are constituent members: the CopticOrthodoxChurch of Alexandria;...
to the CopticOrthodoxChurch of Alexandria, an Oriental OrthodoxChurch. The smaller Coptic Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church, in communion...
Chalcedon in the 5th century and the official separation of the CopticChurch from the Western Christian and Eastern OrthodoxChurches, the Catholic Church has...
the Cenobite in the 4th century. Christian Monasticism was born in Egypt and was instrumental in the formation of the CopticOrthodoxChurch character of...
Eastern OrthodoxChurch of Alexandria and CopticOrthodoxChurch of Alexandria (which separated from each other during the Chalcedonian Schism) in Egypt...
centuries. Coptic has no native speakers today, although it remains in daily use as the liturgical language of the CopticOrthodoxChurch and of the Coptic Catholic...
range from great cathedrals such as Saint Mark's CopticOrthodox Cathedral to the smallest churchesin rural villages. Many ancient monasteries like Monastery...
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