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 ).

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria celebrates the feast day of Saint Basil on the 6th of Tobi ( 6th of Terr on the Ethiopian calendar of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ).

The Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates the feast of Frumentius on December 18, the Eastern Orthodox on November 30, and the Roman Catholic on October 27.

* Coptic Synaxarion ( Toba 2 ) Commemorating the Departure of Pope St. Theonas

* Coptic Live of Saints-24 Abib :- Departure of St. Simeon I, 42nd Pope of Alexandria.

* Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium ( Book of Saints ): The Departure of Pope Cyril IV ( Kyrillos ), 110th Pope of Alexandria

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

Athanasius ' Shrine ( where a portion of his relic s are preserved ) under Coptic Cathedral | St. Mark's Cathedral, Cairo

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

* The Coptic Synexarion commemorating the departure of St. Athanasius the Apostolic ( 7 Bashans, 89 A. M .)

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.

St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Bellaire, Texas

* The leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, is known as Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of all Africa on the Holy See of St. Mark the Apostle.

File: St. George & St. Rueiss Coptic Orthodox Church. JPG | Saint Georges & Saint Rueiss Church, Toronto, Canada

File: St Mark's Coptic Church, Allen Street, London W8-geograph. org. uk-667546. jpg | Saint Mark's Church, Kensington, London, United Kingdom

File: St Mary and St Abraham Coptic Orthodox Church-geograph. org. uk-98611. jpg | Saint Mary and Saint Abraam Church, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

File: St Barbara Church interior. jpg | Iconostasis at Saint Barbara Church, Coptic Cairo, Egypt

* St. Mina ( Menas ) Coptic Orthodox Monastery in Mariut, near Alexandria, Egypt

The Liturgy of St Gregory the Theologian in use by the Coptic Church is named after him.

The Coptic Christian Orthodox Church also claim to hold the relics of St. John the Baptist.

The Coptic Synaxarium states that St. John the Evangelist lived over 90 years, and they used to carry him to the gatherings of the believers.

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

" As Middle Egyptian evolved into Late Egyptian, Demotic, and finally Coptic ( c. 600 BC ), dj-b-t became tobe " brick.

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.

During Pope Shenouda III's visit to Rome from 4 to 10 May 1973, Pope Paul VI gave the Coptic Patriarch a relic of Athanasius, which he brought back to Egypt on 15 May.