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Coptic Catholic Church
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Key facts
- Classification
- Catholic
- Orientation
- Eastern Catholic
- Theology
- Catholic Theology
- Polity
- Episcopal
- Structure
- Patriarchate
- Pope
- Leo XIV
- Patriarch
- Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak
- Associations
- Dicastery for the Eastern Churches
- Region
- Egypt, with communities in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America
- Language
- Coptic , Arabic
- Liturgy
- Coptic Rite
- Headquarters
- Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt , Cairo , Egypt
- Founder
- Mark the Evangelist (according to tradition)
- Congregations
- 166 (2016)
- Members
- 253,100 (2023)
- Other name
- Coptic Church
- Official website
- catholic-eg.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Eastern Catholic Churches
- Part of
- Eastern Christianity
- Headquarters
- Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt
- Official website
- coptcatholic.net
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- Christian liturgical rite
- Alexandrian Rite
- inception
- 1947-00-00
- OpenStreetMap tag
- denomination=coptic_catholic
- member count
- 187320
- Commons category
- Coptic Catholic Church
- topic's main category
- Category:Coptic Catholic Church
- described by source
- Wikitólica
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Encyclopedic overview
The Coptic Catholic Church, also known as the Coptic Catholic Church of Alexandria, 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. Uniquely among the Alexandrian Rite Eastern Catholic liturgies, the Coptic Catholic Church uses the Coptic Rite and the Coptic language (derived from Ancient Egyptian) in its liturgy; the Ethiopian Catholic Church and Eritrean Catholic Church use the Geʽez Rite.
The current Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria is Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, who replaced Antonios Naguib in 2013. The offices of the patriarchate are located in Cairo. The patriarchal Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt is in Nasr City, a suburb of Cairo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coptic Catholic Church” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.