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  2. Cyril of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    Icon of St. Cyril of Alexandria. Cyril regarded the embodiment of God in the person of Jesus Christ to be so mystically powerful that it spread out from the body of the God-man into the rest of the race, to reconstitute human nature into a graced and deified condition of the saints, one that promised immortality and transfiguration to believers.

  3. Alexandrian liturgical rites - Wikipedia

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    The Alexandrian rite's Divine Liturgy contains elements from the liturgies of Saints Mark the Evangelist (who is traditionally regarded as the first bishop of Alexandria), Basil the Great, Cyril of Alexandria, and Gregory Nazianzus. The Liturgy of St Cyril in the Coptic language is the Liturgy of Saint Mark that has been translated from Koine ...

  4. Miaphysitism - Wikipedia

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    The condemnation of Nestorius at the Council of Ephesus in 431 was a victory for the Alexandrian school and church, but its acceptance required a compromise, the "Formula of Reunion", entered into by Cyril of Alexandria and John of Antioch two years later. Cyril died in 444.

  5. 12 Anathemas of Saint Cyril - Wikipedia

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    The 12 Anathemas of Saint Cyril were propositions that Cyril of Alexandria drew up in his 3rd Letter to Nestorius. Nestorius was outraged and a 'pamphlet war' began between the School of Antioch and School of Alexandria. There were mutual accusations of heresy and the result was that the two sides met at the Council of Ephesus in 431.

  6. Liturgy of Saint Cyril - Wikipedia

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    Saint Cyril of Alexandria. The anaphora of Saint Mark (or Saint Cyril) found in the High Middle Ages manuscripts shows all the typical peculiarities of the Alexandrine Rite, such as a long Preface which includes an offering and immediately followed by the intercessions, two epiclesis, the absence of the Benedictus in the Sanctus. [15]

  7. Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    Dioscorus served as the dean of the Catechetical School of Alexandria, and was the personal secretary of Cyril of Alexandria, whom he accompanied to the Council of Ephesus in 431. He eventually rose to the position of archdeacon. [4] He had been made Cyril's designated successor. [5]

  8. Saint Cyril - Wikipedia

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    Saint Cyril the Philosopher (826–869), Christian theologian and missionary, credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet Pope Cyril II of Alexandria (1078–1092), Patriarch of Alexandria Kirill of Turov (1130–1182), Christian theologian and bishop

  9. Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    Pope Cyril VI with President Gamal Abdel Nasser, May 1967. Father Mina became Pope of Alexandria on 10 May 1959 (2 Pashons 1675). In accordance with the old Coptic church tradition, Pope Cyril VI was the only monk in the 20th century A.D./17th century A.M. to be chosen for papacy without having been a bishop /Metropolitan first.