Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity

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Название: Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity

Автор: Otto EA. Meinardus

Издательство: American University in Cairo

Год: 2002

Количество страниц: 368

Язык: English

Формат: pdf

Размер: 17.7 Mb

Christianity arrived early in Egypt, brought -- according to tradition -- by Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first patriarch of Alexandria. The Coptic Orthodox Church has flourished ever since, with millions of adherents both in Egypt and in Coptic communities around the world. Since it split from the Byzantine Church in 451, the Coptic Church has maintained its early traditions, and influence from the outside has been minimal: the liturgy is still sung to unique rhythms in Coptic, a late stage of the same ancient Egyptian language that is inscribed in hieroglyphs on temple walls and papyri.