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Coptic Cairo is a part of Old Cairo which encompasses the Babylon Fortress, the Coptic Museum, the Hanging Church, the Greek Church of St. George and many other Coptic churches and historical sites. It is believed in Christian tradition that the Holy Family visited this area and stayed at the site of Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church (Abu Serga ...
St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church of Los Angeles was founded as the second Coptic parish in Los Angeles, and was incorporated by 1974 with about 50 families at the time. [3] The Coptic population of Los Angeles had been growing since the late 1960s, when Father Bishoy Kamel was commissioned to serve the neighboring Church of St. Mark in 1969 ...
The Church of the Virgin Mary in Haret Zuweila (also transliterated as Haret Zeweila; ḥaret zuwēla) is the oldest church in the district of Haret Zuweila, near the Fatimid section of Cairo. It was probably built around the AD 10th century, though it is first mentioned in writing in the early 12th century on the occasion of the consecration ...
Pope Shenouda III called upon Bishop Serapion to be the bishop of Los Angeles, Southern California and Hawaii on November 14, 1995 in the Coptic Patriarchate in Cairo. Bishop Serapion arrived in Los Angeles on December 23, 1995, and was installed upon the throne by six bishops, in the presence of numerous priests, hundreds of deacons, and a ...
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2 Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California and Hawaii. ... Tennessee 1931 Old Murfreesboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37217-3022 ... Holy Virgin Mary & St. Bishoy Coptic ...
Coptic icon of St. Simon the Shoemaker (depicted as a one-eyed man carrying a sack of water, as he used to carry water to the sick and the old every morning before going to work. The Church of the Holy Virgin in Babylon El-Darag (Babylon of the Steps) ( Arabic : كنيسة السيدة العذراء في بابليون الدرج ) is a Coptic ...
From 1660 to 1800 the church was the Seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria. In 1660 Pope Matthew IV of Alexandria transferred the seat from Ḥārat Zūwayla to Ḥārat al-Rūm, [ 3 ] where it remained until 1800 when Pope Mark VIII transferred the patriarchal seat to Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Azbakeya .