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Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral is a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt. It is the historical seat of the Pope of Alexandria, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Believed to stand on the site of a church founded in AD 42 by Mark the Evangelist, in AD 311 a chapel was recorded here, containing bodies said to be of Mark and his successors.
The Coptic Catholic Church sui juris comprises a single ecclesiastical province, covering Egypt alone. The Patriarch is the sole metropolitan archbishop , retaining the ancient title Alexandria but his actual seat is in Egypt's modern capital Cairo .
Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of St. Michael in Port Said (Latin Catholic) Cathedral of the Dormition in Alexandria (Melkite Greek) Cathedral of the Resurrection in Alexandria (Coptic Catholic) Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt in Cairo (Coptic Catholic) Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral in Cairo (Chaldean Catholic) Cathedral of the Resurrection in Cairo ...
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for the largest Christian church in Egypt. The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, since the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451.
Catholics in Egypt belong to seven distinct ritual Particular Churches sui iuris, the largest being the Coptic Catholic Church, led by its Patriarch of Alexandria. The majority of the Christians in Egypt are members of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria .
The cathedral is located in the place of a village called p-Sovt em-p-Hoi (Coptic: ⲡⲥⲟⲃⲧ ⲙ̀ⲡϩⲟⲓ "the wall of the moat") which had been given to the Coptic Church in 969 by Jawhar. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This land was a replacement for the land that was taken from the church to be included in building the Palace of Al-Mu'izz li ...
In 1947 it was restored for good. It lost territories in Egypt repeatedly to establish suffragan sees of Alexandria as Metropolitan: on 17 December 1982 the Coptic Catholic Eparchy of Ismayliah; on 21 March 2003 the Coptic Catholic Eparchy of Guizeh. It enjoyed Papal visits from Pope John Paul II in February 2000 and from Pope Francis in April ...
The Coptic pope presides from Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Abbassia District in Cairo. The church follows the Coptic Rite for its liturgy, prayer and devotional patrimony. Adherents of the Coptic Orthodox Church make up Egypt's largest and most significant minority population, and the largest population of Christians in the ...