Episcopal networks and authority in late antique Egypt : bishops of the Theban region at work /

"In this book the author examines how two bishops in the Theban region contributed to the rise of a new, anti-Chalcedonian church hierarchy, which became the forerunner of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Abraham of Hermonthis (ca. 590-621) and Pesynthius of Koptos (599-632) are exceptional, since a...

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Main Author: Dekker, Renate, 1983- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Leuven : Peeters, 2018.

Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; 264.
OLA ; 264.

Subjects:

Pisentius, > Saint, > approximately 568-631 or 632.

Abraham, > of Hermonthis, > approximately 590-621.

Coptic Church > History.

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