Coptic Orthodox Church

latest stage of the Egyptian language

international Oriental Orthodox Christian church led by the Patriarch of Alexandria on the Holy See of St. Mark

Copts (; ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to Egypt who have inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity. They are, like the broader Egyptian population, descended from the ancient Egyptians. Copts predominantly follow the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Alexandrian Greek Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church. They are the largest Christian population in Egypt and the Middle East, as well as in Sudan and Libya. Copts account for roughly 5 to 15 percent of the population of Egypt.

script used for writing the Coptic language and Nubian languages

Makuria (Old Nubian: , Dotawo; ; ) was a medieval Nubian kingdom in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt. Its capital was Dongola (Old Nubian: , Touggoul) in the fertile Dongola Reach, about halfway between the 3rd and 4th Nile cataract.

Alodia, also known as Alwa (Greek: Ἀρούα, Aroua; , ʿAlwa), was a medieval kingdom in what is now central Sudan. Its capital was the city of Soba, located near modern-day Khartoum at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers.

Egyptian liturgical calendar

Nobatia or Nobadia (; Greek: Νοβαδία, Nobadia; Old Nubian: ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̅ Migin or ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ︦ ⲅⲟⲩⲗ, Migitin Goul lit. "''of Nobadia's land''") was a late antique kingdom in Lower Nubia, modern day southern Egypt. Together with the two other Coptic-Nubian kingdoms, Makuria and Alodia, it succeeded the kingdom of Kush. After its establishment in around 400, Nobadia gradually expanded by defeating the Blemmyes in the north and incorporating the territory between the second and third Nile cataract in the south. In 543, it converted to Coptic Christianity. It would then be annexed by Makuria, under unknown cir

Archbishop of Alexandria, Egypt; includes the designation "pope"

Christian art of the Byzantine-Greco-Roman Egypt and of Coptic Christian Churches

Christian seminary, 2nd-4th centuries

museum in Coptic Cairo, Egypt

Marian apparition that occurred in Zeitoun, a district of Cairo, Egypt, beginning 1968

body of writings in the Coptic language of Egypt

liturgical object

byzantine and Coptic Liturgy

16th to 17th-century East African state

Christian cross variants associated in some way with Coptic Christians

music genre

historical work of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, written in Arabic

hospital in Cairo, Egypt

aspect of the history of Egypt focusing on the history of the Copts

Egyptian TV channel

thumb|right|200px|Agpeya The Agpeya (, ) is the Coptic Christian "Prayer Book of the Hours" or breviary, and is equivalent to the Shehimo in the Syriac Orthodox Church (another Oriental Orthodox Christian denomination), as well as the Byzantine Horologion and Roman Liturgy of the Hours used by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, respectively. The Agpeya prayers are popular Christian prayers recited at fixed prayer times, facing the east by both individuals and families at home seven times a day, as well as for communal prayers as an introduction to Mass at church; this Chris

three-day fast in Syriac Christianity

Nayrouz (, ) is a feast when martyrs and confessors are commemorated within the Coptic Orthodox Church. Celebrated on September 11, the day is both the start of the Coptic new year and its first month, Thout. Nayrouz is also commemorated by Ethiopian Christians who also call it Enkutatash. Children wear new clothes and give bouquets of flowers to people.

believed, by some, to be a mass apparition of the Virgin Mary

eastern Christian wedding ritual

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Ennarea, also known as E(n)narya or In(n)arya (Gonga: Hinnario), was a kingdom in the Gibe region in what is now western Ethiopia. It became independent from the kingdom of Damot in the 14th century and would be the most powerful kingdom in the region until its decline in the 17th century. Being located on the southwestern periphery of the Ethiopian Empire, Ennarea was its tributary throughout much of its history, supplying the emperor with gold and slaves. The culmination of this relationship was the Christianization of the Ennarean elite in the late 1580s. From the late 16th century the king