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St. Abba Sarapamone Coptic Orthodox Church, 1517 Madison St, Clarksville, TN. St Karas 1207 SE Broad St Murfreesboro, TN 37130. St. John the Beloved 851 Baker Rd, Smyrna, TN 37167. St. Barbara Coptic Orthodox Church - Franklin, TN. St. Verena Coptic Orthodox Church 5240 Edmondson Pike, Nashville, TN 3721.
The first Coptic church in the United States, St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church, was established in the late 1960s in Jersey City. There are many Coptic Orthodox churches and congregations in the United States. Estimated numbers of adherents, based on church membership, was stated in 2008 as between 350,000 and 420,000. [1]
In 1964, St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church in Toronto, Canada was established. However, not too long afterwards, the first parish in the States, St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church ( Jersey City) was founded in the late 1960s and it is considered the first Coptic Orthodox Church, parish, and church building in North America, if not, the Western ...
The Coptic Orthodox Church (Coptic: Ϯⲉⲕ̀ⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲛ̀ⲟⲣⲑⲟⲇⲟⲝⲟⲥ, romanized: Ti-eklisia en-remenkimi en-orthodhoxos, lit. 'the Egyptian Orthodox Church'), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt. The ...
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. This church was established by Saint Mark the apostle and evangelist in the 1st century. The head of the church is the Pope of Alexandria.
The Coptic Orthodox Diocese of New York and New England, also referred to as the Coptic Diocese of New York, is a diocese of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. It was founded in 2013 and encompasses the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont in the United States of America.
The first Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States was St. Mark’s in Jersey City, which was founded in 1970 by Egyptian immigrants, and the congregations have since grown in allowing 15 other parishes in New Jersey alone, including St. Mark's Church in the same region of Jersey City.
St. Mary & St. Antonios Church, being one of the oldest Coptic Orthodox churches in North America, started in March 1972, [5] and is the first Coptic Orthodox parish in New York [6] as well as the third Coptic parish in the US, the first two being St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Jersey City and St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Los Angeles.