Christianity: Coptic Christianity FOUNDED: 48 C.E. RELIGION AS A PERCENTAGE OF WORLD POPULATION: 0.12 Overview The Coptic Orthodox Church adheres to the original apostolic traditions. It follows the decisions of the Councils of Nicea (325),...

COPTIC CHURCH. The Coptic church is the ancient church of Egypt; the name Copt derives from the Greek Aiguptioi ("Egyptians"). According to tradition within the church, its founder and first patriarch was Mark the Evangelist, who first...

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THE COPTIC CHURCH The name Copt is derived from the Greek word "Aigyptos." The Coptic language is the ancient language of the Pharaohs, previously written in Hieroglypics, but by the second century written down in Greek characters. The Coptic Church sees its...

By Theodore Hall Patrick. Greensboro, NC: Fisher Fork Press, 1996. Xiv plus 226 pages, bibliography and index. $14.95, paper. The first thing that strikes the reader of Bat Ye'or's study is that it is not only about Eastern Christianity under Islam but...