Tradition Institution Christianity
Coptic Orthodox Church
Ecclesia Orthodoxa Coptorum la ܥܕܬܐ ܐܝܓܘܦܛܝܬܐ arc
International Oriental Orthodox Christian church led by the Patriarch of Alexandria on the Holy See of St. Mark
- Dated from 42 CE
- Also called Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, Coptic Church, Egypt Orthodox Church
A path that branches,
meets and parts.
Schools and lineages
Attributed founding
Whom the records name as founder
What this means
An attribution, and a contested one in most traditions: it does not mean the tradition began fully formed, nor that later adherents accept the attribution.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Figures · 2
Begin with a figure
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 2 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Places · 4
Places and sites
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 4 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A place that names a tradition may be a temple or a whole province. Either way it is not a count of believers, and not evidence of practice in every period.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Hanging Church
Church in Cairo, Egypt -
Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral
Coptic orthodox cathedral in Cairo, Egypt -
Saint Mercurius Church in Coptic Cairo
Building in Egypt
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Institutions · 1
Offices
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A ruling house that names a tradition is a family’s recorded affiliation, not its subjects’ practice; an office is a line of holders, not a family.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Connections
How Coptic Orthodox Church connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Place 3
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
4 statements on this record
- 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 4 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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