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Pope In The Coptic Church

POPE IN THE COPTIC CHURCH From the Latin papa and the Greek pappas, diminutive for “father”; the Coptic apa is from the Aramaic abba (hence the Arabic baba after the Arab conquest). In medieval Arabic literature, the term also appears as al-Bab. The title “pope” has been in use in the Egyptian church from the …

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Patriarchal Residences

Culture / By Armia FAYEZ

PATRIARCHAL RESIDENCES From the time of Saint MARK, the first patriarch of the Egyptian church, the Coptic patriarchs resided at Alexandria, the cradle of Egyptian Christianity. This was the first patriarchal seat in Egypt, but there were also others, depending on historical circumstances. Eutychius (877-940), Melchite patriarch of Alexandria, in his masterwork, the Annales (PG …

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Makramallah The Hegumenos

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

MAKRAMALLAH THE HEGUMENOS An eighteenth-century priest known from two manuscripts in the library of the Coptic Patriarchate, Cairo. In 1724 Makramallah was probably pastor of the Church of Saint Menas of Fumm al-Khalij in Cairo. He copied a small-sized manuscript of 183 sheets containing the Ordo of the Holy Week in Coptic and Arabic; he …

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Monasteries In And Around Cairo

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

MONASTERIES IN AND AROUND CAIRO Several monasteries that earlier were outside Cairo are today swallowed up by the development of greater Cairo. To the north, there was a village called Damanhur Shubra or Damanhur Shahid (Dayr Yuhanna), and not far from there but outside Cairo in the Middle Ages, DAYR AL-KHANDAQ, which contained several churches. …

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John XVI

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

JOHN XVI The 103rd patriarch of the See of Saint Mark (1676-1718). He succeeded MATTHEW IV (1660-1675), originally a monk of DAYR AL-BARAMUS. As a native of the old city of Tukh al- Nasara or Tukh Dalakah his secular name before taking the monastic vow at DAYR ANBA ANTUNIYUS was Ibrahim al- Tukhi. He was …

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Jirjis Al-Jawhari Al-Khanani

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

JIRJIS AL-JAWHARI AL-KHANANI An eighteenth-century priest known from three manuscripts of the Coptic Patriarchate, Cairo: Theology 90, Liturgy 102, and Theology 54. In 1776 he was pastor of the Church of the Virgin at Harit al-Rum in Old Cairo. In 1777 he copied an Arabic manuscript of 207 large sheets (32 x 23 cm; Coptic …

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Architectural History Of The Coptic Museum

Places / By Youssef Matta

ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE COPTIC MUSEUM “Arab art has its museum; Coptic art is waiting for its own.” It is with these words that Max Herz Bey concluded a letter to Hussein Fakhry Pasha and launched the first idea of a Coptic Museum (CCMAA 15, p. 4-6). The letter dates from December 1897 and follows …

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Abu Al-Makarim

Eminent / By Youssef Matta

ABU AL-MAKARIM Al-Shaykh al-Mu’taman Abu al-Makarim Sa‘d-Allah Jirjis ibn Mas‘ud was a priest of the Coptic church with the title of qummus (HEGUMENOS) who lived in the thirteenth century. He is best known as the author of the famous work entitled Tarikh al-Kana’is wa-al-Adyirah (History of Churches and Monasteries), which he is known to have …

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