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71Coptic Diocese of Faras — The Coptic Diocese of Faras is a titular diocese of the Coptic Orthodox Church formerly located at Pakhoras in Nobadia (modern Faras, in Sudan). Despite Faras s submersion following the building of the Aswan High Dam, the see is still claimed by… …
72Coptic Diocese of Syene — The Diocese of Syene is an ancient see of the Coptic Church in Aswan, Egypt. As its first bishop Neilammon was not mentioned as a new one in the Festal Letter of 339, it is assumed the diocese was established in the early 330s. Appion referred to …
73Coptic Church — Egyptian Christianity developed during the 1st century AD under the patriarch of Alexandria. The Copticscript was used to translate the Holy Scriptures and religious works. Strains soon appeared between the orthodox formula for the nature of… …
74Coptic Period — The term Coptic is derived from the Greek Aigyptos , Egypt , itself derived from ancient Egyptian Hwt ka Ptah , House of the ka of Ptah , one of the temples in Memphis. Memphis was the residence for large parts of Egyptian history, the reason why …
75Coptic Chant — Chant sung in the Orthodox Coptic Rite of Egypt and, in simplified form, in the Coptic Catholic Church. Languages sung include the original Greek, Coptic (a remnant of ancient Egyptian), and Arabic. Liturgies of the Eucharist, lasting from… …
76Coptic Apocalypse of Paul — Gnosticism This article is part of a series on Gnosticism History of Gnosticism …
77Coptic art — Art of the early Christians of Egypt from the fourth to the eighth centuries CE, during the end of the Roman period and the beginning of the Byzantine period. Under Rome, Fayum burial portraits done in encaustic are the great achievement.… …
78Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians — Two versions of the formerly lost Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians (which is quite distinct from the Greek Gospel of the Egyptians), were among the codices in the Nag Hammadi library, discovered in 1945.A sub title the text appears to have in… …
79Coptic Church — the native Christian church in Egypt, governed by a patriarch and characterized by an adherence to Monophysitism and the use of the Coptic language in its liturgy. [1840 50] * * * …
80Coptic Catholic Church — Eastern Catholic church of the Alexandrian rite (q.v.) in Egypt, in communion with Rome since 1741, when Athanasius (Athanasius, Saint), a Monophysite (acknowledging only one nature in the person of Christ) Coptic bishop, became a Roman… …
