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Outside of the Coptic primary area of residence within parts of present-day Egypt (Copts in Egypt), Sudan (Copts in Sudan), and Libya (Copts in Libya), the largest Coptic diaspora population is located within the United States, Canada, and Australia. The first Coptic Orthodox church in North America is St. Mark in Toronto; it was built in 1964 ...
Coptic cross. The Coptic Rite is an Alexandrian liturgical rite.It is practiced in the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church. [1]The term Coptic derives from Arabic qubṭ / qibṭ قبط, a corruption of Greek Aígyptos (Ancient Greek: Αἴγυπτος, “Egyptian”).
Shortly thereafter, the Copts started to serve in the Egyptian army. [46] Coptic monks, between 1898 and 1914. Towards the end of the 19th century, the Coptic Church underwent phases of new development. In 1853, Pope Cyril IV established the first modern Coptic schools, including the first Egyptian school for girls.
This list of Copts includes notable Copts figures who are notable in their areas of expertise. For saints, please refer to List of Coptic saints. Part of a series on the:
Copts both within Egypt and in the diaspora are insulted and accused because they insist on holding strongly to and taking pride in their national Egyptian identity, rather than having another identity that crosses the borders [of Egypt]. The Copts focus their identity on Egypt's geographical borders, which are deeply rooted in history. [116]
The goal of constructing a modern Coptic identity was to create and ideological space for the Copts within Egypt. [17] Up to that point, Egyptian nationalism was the major form of expression for Egyptian identity ; [ 18 ] Copts viewed themselves as only Copts without any Arab sentiment. [ 19 ]
A Nov 2023 study by Hammarén et al isolated the non-african parts of the genomes of modern day northeast Africans found that Sudanese Copts and Egyptian muslims from Cairo bore most similarities to Levantines, unlike other populations in the region which had predominant genetic contributions from the Arabian peninsula rather than Levant for ...
Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya Coptic language , a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century Coptic script , the script used for writing the Coptic language, encoded in Unicode as: