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Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (Alexandria) Lists of Coptic church buildings cover church buildings that employ the Alexandrian Rite. They are organized by region or country. Egypt which is where the Coptic religion began is listed in Africa, although Egypt is in Africa and in Asia.
A cathedral church is a Christian place of worship that is the chief, or "mother" church of a diocese and is distinguished as such by being the location for the cathedra or bishop's seat. In the strictest sense, only those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy possess cathedrals.
A modern Coptic cathedral in Aswan. All churches of the Coptic Orthodox Church are designed to face the eastward direction of prayer and efforts are made to remodel churches obtained from other Christian denominations that are not built in this fashion. [77] In Coptic Orthodox Christianity, fasting is defined as going without meat or dairy. [78]
Following the establishment of St Mary & S. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Centre in Birmingham, Bishop Missael was consecrated on 26 May 1991 by Pope Shenouda III as the first bishop of the first Coptic Orthodox diocese in the British Isles, the Diocese of Birmingham, [8] which became the Diocese of the Midlands. [9]
Saint Mary and Archangel Michael Church is a Coptic Orthodox church on Cranbourne Gardens, Temple Fortune, north London. [1] It is housed in a building built in stages between 1915 and 1962 as the Church of England church of Saint Barnabas, Temple Fortune, whose records are held at the London Metropolitan Archives.
The Coptic Catholic Church [a] is an Eastern Catholic particular Church in full communion with the Catholic Church. Along with the Ethiopian Catholic Church and Eritrean Catholic Church , it belongs to the Alexandrian liturgical tradition.
Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands, UK. In 1991 the first Coptic Orthodox Diocese to be established in the United Kingdom, and one of the first in the diaspora, was the Diocese of the Midlands, UK (although at the time known as the Diocese of Birmingham). [1]
St Augustine of England Church or St Augustine's Church is a Catholic parish church in Solihull, West Midlands, England. It was built from 1838 to 1839, eleven years before the reestablishment of the Catholic dioceses in 1850.