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

Rites & Ritual

what its people do — and when Part of Practice →
Yearly
The fasting year. Wednesdays and Fridays, the fifty-five days of Great Lent, the Fast of the Apostles, the Fast of the Virgin, the Fast of Nineveh and the forty-three days before Christmas — well over two hundred days in a normal year. No meat, no dairy, no eggs, no fish on most of them, and on strict days nothing until the ninth hour. When Annual cycle — more than two hundred fasting days spread across the yearWho Every baptised Copt from about the age of seven Go deeper — context →

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

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