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Canons Of Hippolytus

CANONS OF HIPPOLYTUS A series of thirty-eight canons peculiar to the Copts and certainly only a reworking of the famous Apostolic Tradition attributed, rightly or wrongly, to the antipope Hippolytus (Geerard, 1974-1987, Vol. 1, no. 1737; see also no. 1742). It would be helpful to know who the author is, an Alexandrian or a Roman, …

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Canons Of Saint John Chrysostom

Eminent, System / By Arsanious Adel

CANONS OF SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Twelve ordered extracts from the second and, especially, the third of the six books of the treatise On the Priesthood, by JOHN CHRYSOSTOM. This collection is peculiar to the Copts. It is not known at what date the Copts inserted the canons into their canonical collections. These may be divided …

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Canons Of Epiphanius

Eminent, System / By Arsanious Adel

CANONS OF EPIPHANIUS A set of canons prescribing moral rules concerning the clergy and the laity, promulgated by the emperor JUSTINIAN at the instigation of the patriarch of Constantinople. The Epiphanius under whose name these canons are placed is not, as one might be tempted to think, the famous bishop of Salamis in the fourth …

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Ecclesiastical Canons

Liturgy, System / By Arsanious Adel

ECCLESIASTICAL CANONS The name given by P. de Lagarde (1883, p. 239, n. a) to distinguish these canons from the seventy-one APOSTOLIC CANONS. In the Arabic version of the Coptic, it is the first book of the 127 Canons of the Apostles. Their superscription in Sahidic is: “These are the canons of our holy fathers …

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Lectionary Of The Holy Week

Liturgy, System / By Armia FAYEZ

LECTIONARY OF THE HOLY WEEK The Holy Week lectionary service covers services from Palm Sunday to Easter. Each day of the Holy Week has five “five night hours” and “five day hours,” each of them with special readings, and a “burial service” conducted after Palm Sunday Eucharist. This last service is for those who pass …

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Dayr Al-Sham‘

Places / By Arsanious Adel

DAYR AL-SHAM‘ The most ancient testimony is that given at the beginning of the thirteenth century by ABU SALIH THE ARMENIAN (1895, pp. 194-95), who saw an inscription dating a reconstruction of the monastery from the year 951. Abu Salih explained the nickname Dayr al-Shayyatin (Monastery of the Demons) by saying that the monks had …

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Fuwwah

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

FUWWAH A city located in the Delta in the Gharbiyyah province about 14 miles (22.5 km) northeast of Damanhur. A version of the SYNAXARION for 3 Bashans lists the commemoration of Eudaimon from Fuwwah. But it is uncertain whether this Fuwwah is identical with the Fuwwah in the northwestern Delta. It is similarly uncertain whether …

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Mikha’il (Bishop Of Atrib)

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

MIKHA’IL The thirteenth-century bishop of Atrib and Malij. The exact dates of his birth and consecration as bishop or of his death are not known. We are certain only about the dates of twelve small theological treatises written between 1243 and 1247 before he became bishop. O. H. E. Burmester believed that he lived in …

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Copto-Arabic Nomocanons

Books / By Armia FAYEZ

COPTO-ARABIC NOMOCANONS Canonical documents are preserved either in chronological collections, in which the texts appear in the order in which they were published, or in nomocanons, in which texts are grouped according to subject to facilitate consultation. It appears that the Greeks invented this method of presentation and were imitated by the Copts, not in …

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Nicaea, Arabic Canons Of

Events / By Armia FAYEZ

NICAEA, ARABIC CANONS OF A name applied to several series of canons that are missing in the Greek or Latin canonical collections. They appear to have been reworked from the Syriac, at least in part. In the latter language, the texts attributed to the Council of NICAEA in 325 are said to have come from …

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