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In 1964, as the number of Copts grew in the United States, the first Coptic lay organization in the United States, the Coptic American Association (CAA) was founded. The organization managed to amass 200 members, from throughout the States, by the end of 1964. [4]
With hundreds of Coptic Orthodox churches in the United States alone (along with over 90 congregations in Canada), [1] it is estimated that there are over one million Coptic Orthodox Christians in North America. [2] While the Coptic Orthodox form a larger number in the US, the first Coptic Orthodox parish in North America was actually founded ...
As of 2018, it was estimated that a half-million Copts lived in the United States. [1] The historic centers of Coptic American life have been in New York, New Jersey, and Southern California. [2] In the 1990s, there were more than 50 Coptic congregations in the United States. By 2018, there were more than 250 Coptic congregations in the United ...
A 2013 estimate by the U.S. Department of State placed the entire population of non-Muslim Libyans at 180,000 (roughly 3% of the country's population). However, the Coptic Orthodox Church in Libya estimated that its membership alone was 300,000, including those who do not regularly attend church services. [98]
The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members. The first Assyrian American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives was Adam Benjamin in 1977, [4] and the first Persian-American U.S. representative was Stephanie Bice in 2021. [5] The first Coptic-American U.S. senator was George Helmy in 2024. [6]
The 2016 US Census estimated the number of people with Egyptian ancestry at 256,000, [8] most of whom are from Egypt's Christian Orthodox Coptic minority. [7] Egyptian Americans may also include the Egyptian foreign-born population in the United States. [ 9 ]
Shepherd's Rod (Davidian Seventh-day Adventists) United Sabbath-Day Adventist Church; United Seventh-Day Brethren; Seventh-day Sabbatarian Pentecostalists. Covenant Apostolic Congregations International (CACI) Nazareth Baptist Church; Sabbatarian Pentecostalists, Ukraine, Oneness denomination, formed in the 1920s–1930s in the Western Ukraine ...
Coptic calendar: 1620–1621: ... German Association football club FC Schalke 04 is established. ... U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1838)