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Bishoy of Scetis (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲓϣⲱⲓ Abba Pišoi; Greek: Ὅσιος Παΐσιος ὁ Μέγας; 320 – 417 AD [1]), known in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria as the Star of the Desert and the Beloved of our Good Savior, was a Coptic Desert Father.
In 1946 the African Orthodox groups in Kenya and Uganda were received into the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria. In the 1950s, however, the Orthodox Church in Kenya suffered severe oppression at the hands of the British colonial authorities during the Mau Mau Uprising. Most of the clergy were put in concentration camps, and churches ...
The church, named after Pope Benjamin II , is also known as the Church of the Mary, mother of Jesus. It is situated adjacent to the Church of Saint Pishoy, specifically at the corner formed by the northern walls of the northern altar and the choir of the main church, alongside the eastern wall of the northern deacon's room.
St. Pishoy Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Wadi El Natrun) Virgin Mary (El-Sourian) Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Wadi El Natrun) St. George Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Khatatba, Monufia) St. Thomas Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Khatatba, Monufia) Armenian Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (uninhabited) St. John the Dwarf Coptic Orthodox Monastery ...
Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Alexandria (23 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Coptic Orthodox Church, an Oriental Orthodox church; The Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, part of the wider Eastern Orthodox Church; The Coptic Catholic Church, one of 23 Eastern Catholic churches who are in full communion with the Catholic Church led by the bishop of Rome; Formerly the Latin Patriarchate of Alexandria also did so.
For the patriarchs of the Byzantine Orthodox church after the split with the Oriental Orthodox church, see List of Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Alexandria. Not all of the dates given are certain. The dates below are according to the Gregorian calendar. Some of the dates disagree with those given in Coptic publications such as The English ...
The Greek Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria has the title Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa. The term "Greek" is a religious identifier and not an ethnic one; while many of these patriarchs were ethnic Greeks, some were Hellenized Egyptians , and others were Melkite Arabs.