The Coptic Orthodox Church

Denomination·Founded 451 CE·est. ~10 million, and disputed: the church claims 15 million in Egypt, while the state statistics agency CAPMAS puts all Egyptian Christians near 5.7 per cent of the population.

Judaism → Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy → The Coptic Orthodox Church

The Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of AlexandriaArchiveSaint Takla Haymanot Coptic Orthodox Site

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Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 2 You × The Coptic Orthodox Church Discussion

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who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →
A Anba Antonius — the first monk. He sold what he had around 270, walked into the eastern desert, and made solitude a vocation rather than a punishment. Athanasius wrote his life and the book travelled as far as Gaul within a generation. Coptic monasticism is the export Egypt is proudest of. Domain the desert, monastic life, deliverance from demonsStanding the pattern every Coptic monk is measured against; his monastery by the Red Sea has been continuously inhabited since the fourth century Meet them — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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