Coptic Orthodox Church
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The Coptic Orthodox Church was established by Mark, an apostle and evangelist, during the middle of the 1st century (). Due to disputes concerning the nature of Christ, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Church were in schism after the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, resulting in a conflict with the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
After AD 639, Egypt was ruled by its Islamic conquerors from Arabia. In the 12th century, the church relocated its seat from Alexandria to Cairo. The same century also saw the Copts become a religious minority. During the 14th and 15th centuries, Nubian Christianity was supplanted by Islam. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the larger body of ethnic Egyptian Christians began to call themselves Coptic Orthodox, to distinguish themselves from the Catholic Copts and from the Eastern Orthodox, who are mostly Greek. In 1959, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was granted autocephaly. This was extended to the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church in 1998 following the successful Eritrean War of Independence from Ethiopia. Since the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Coptic Christians have suffered increased religious discrimination and violence. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1970
Untersuchungen zum Koptischen Stundengebet /
: Includes texts (with German traslations)relatedti the Horologion and Psalmodia of the coptic liturgy,cheifly from ms.574 of the Coptic Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library : xi, 552 pages ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliograhical references.