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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.
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]
St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Nashville, Tennessee 2412 Foster Ave Nashville, TN 37210; St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Nashville, Tennessee 1931 Old Murfreesboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37217-3022; St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church, Knoxville, Tennessee 1921 Sunny Ln, Knoxville, TN 37912
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]
In 1741, the Coptic bishop, Anba Athanasius of Jerusalem, became a Catholic. [9] In 1781, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV as vicar apostolic of the fewer than 2,000 Egyptian Coptic Catholics. [8] Eventually, Athanasius returned to the Coptic Orthodox Church and others served as Catholic vicar apostolic. [8]
The Coptic Orthodox Diocese of New York and New England, also referred to as the Coptic Diocese of New York, is a diocese of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. It was founded in 2013 and encompasses the states of Connecticut , Maine , Massachusetts , New Hampshire , New York , Rhode Island and Vermont in the United States of America.
Turin Cathedral, the home of the Shroud of Turin. St. Peter's Basilica, the place of many burials since that of Saint Peter; St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. Vatican City – location of Saint Peter's Basilica, relics of various saints (such as John Paul II), relics of the Passion of Christ, and headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church