In the Catholic Church ( both the Latin Rite and Eastern Catholic ), Eastern Orthodox, Coptic and Anglican abbeys, the mode of election, position, rights, and authority of an abbess correspond generally with those of an abbot.

* Pope Anastasius of Alexandria – Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria 605 – 616

The Patriarchate of Alexandria ( Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria and Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ) claims to have been founded by Saint Mark.

The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Coptic and Old Catholic Churches consider this anointing to be a sacrament.

296-298 – d. 2 May 373 ), also referred to as St. Athanasius the Great, St. Athanasius I of Alexandria, St Athanasius the Confessor and ( primarily in the Coptic Orthodox Church ) St Athanasius the Apostolic, was the 20th bishop of Alexandria.

Athanasius is venerated as a Christian saint, whose feast day is 2 May in Western Christianity, 15 May in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and 18 January in the other Eastern Orthodox Churches.

The relic of St Athanasius the Great of Alexandria is currently preserved under the new Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Deir El-Anba Rowais, Abbassiya, Cairo, Egypt.

Category: Coptic Orthodox saints

Category: Popes of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

He is celebrated in many churches on his feast days: 30 January in the Old-Calendar Eastern Orthodox Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church ; 17 January in the New-Calendar Eastern Orthodox Church, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church and the Coptic Catholic Church.

Category: Coptic Orthodox saints

The Books of the Bible are listed differently in the canons of Judaism and the Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Slavonic Orthodox, Coptic, Georgian Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac, Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches, although there is substantial overlap.

In the Coptic Orthodox Church chapter three is chanted on the twelfth hour of the Good Friday service, that commemorates the burial of Jesus.

( Egypt and Coptic Church )

The Oriental Orthodox communion comprises six groups: Syriac Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Eritrean Orthodox, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church ( India ) and Armenian Apostolic churches.

Many of Cairo's oldest Coptic churches, including the Hanging Church, are located along the fortress walls in a section of the city known as Coptic Cairo.

The creed became standard orthodox doctrine, while the Coptic Church of Alexandria dissented, holding to Cyril's formula of the oneness of Christ ’ s nature as the incarnation of God the Word.

This miaphysite position, historically characterised by Chalcedonian followers as " monophysitism " though this is denied by the dissenters, formed the basis for the distinction from other churches of the Coptic Church of Egypt and Ethiopia and the " Jacobite " churches of Syria and Armenia ( see Oriental Orthodoxy ).

* Coptic Pope Andronicus of Alexandria ( reigned 616 – 622 )

However, in Coptic literature, St Athanasius is the first patriarch of Alexandria to use Coptic as well as Greek in his writings.

In Coptic literature, St. Athanasius is the first patriarch of Alexandria to use Coptic as well as Greek in his writings.

He is also known for his involvement in the expulsion of Novatians and Jews from Alexandria and the murder of the Hellenistic philosopher Hypatia by Coptic monks.

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for the largest Christian church in Egypt and the Middle East.

As of 2012, about 10 % of Egyptians belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.

Christianity spread throughout Egypt within half a century of Saint Mark's arrival in Alexandria, as is clear from the New Testament writings found in Bahnasa, in Middle Egypt, which date around the year AD 200, and a fragment of the Gospel of John, written in Coptic, which was found in Upper Egypt and can be dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

St. Mark Coptic Cathedral in Alexandria

From that point onward, Alexandria would have two patriarchs: the non-Chalcedonian native Egyptian one, now known as the Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of St. Mark and the " Melkite " or Imperial Patriarch, now known as the Greek Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa.

Almost the entire Egyptian population rejected the terms of the Council of Chalcedon and remained faithful to the native Egyptian Church ( now known as the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ).

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria regards itself as having been misunderstood at the Council of Chalcedon.

) Cyrillic is basically a true alphabet, but has syllabic letters for ( я, е, ю ); Coptic has a letter for.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

It is also situated at the nucleus of Coptic Orthodox community, which separated from the Roman and Byzantine church in the late 4th century.

A term that comes closer to Coptic Orthodoxy is miaphysite, which refers to a conjoined nature for Christ, both human and divine, united indivisibly in the Incarnate Logos.

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria believes that Christ is perfect in His divinity, and He is perfect in His humanity, but His divinity and His humanity were united in one nature called " the nature of the incarnate word ", which was reiterated by Saint Cyril of Alexandria.

The number of Coptic Orthodox Christians in the diaspora is roughly 4 million.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church do acknowledge the Honorary Supremacy of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, since the Church of Alexandria is technically their Mother Church.

It is known as the Coptic calendar or the Alexandrian Calendar.

The Coptic Orthodox Church is thus considered an Old Calendrist Church.

Saint Clement of Rome is commemorated in the Synaxarium of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria on the 29th of the month of Hatour November ( Julian ) – equivalent to 8 December ( Gregorian ) due to the current 13-day Julian-Gregorian Calendar offset.

According to the Synaxarium of the Coptic Orthodox Church, his martyrdom is commemorated on the 1st day of the Coptic Calendar ( 1st day of the month of " Thout "), which currently falls on September 11 ( corresponding to August 29 in the Gregorian Calendar ).

The three seasons are commemorated by special prayers in the Coptic Liturgy.

He is commemorated as a saint in the Coptic Orthodox Church, where his feast is on 29 Pashons.

He is commemorated in the calendar of the Coptic Orthodox Church on 27 Tubah.

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the 21st day of Ba ' unah.

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the third day of Mesori.

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the 9th day of Paopi.

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarium on the 6th day of Tobi.

He is commemorated on the 5th day of Meshir in the Coptic Synaxarium.

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarium on the 8th day of Paremhat.

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the 18th day of Month of Tobi ( usually 26 January ).

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the 8th day of Koiak.

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the 14th day of Baramudah.

He is commemorated in the Synaxarion of the Coptic Orthodox Church on 19 Ba ' ūnah.

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the 20th day of Amshir, the day of his death.

He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Coptic Church on the 26th day of Epip.

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the 12th day of Amshir.

He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Coptic Church on the 20th day of Thout, the day of his death.

He is commemorated in the calendars of the Coptic churches on 20 Tubah, the day of his death.

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the 9th day of Hathor.

He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the 23rd day of Babah.