THE STORY OF THE COPTS - THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT

Council of Chalcedon... p. 97. Yassa ‘Abd ‘l Masih. The Faith and Practices of the Coptic Church. P. 17; Council of Chalcedon.. ...

In his book Histoire des Conciles, vol. III, p. 59 and its footnote. It should be noted that Leo I was one of four bishops of R ...

A. Harnack: 1 – in his book Outlines of the History of Dogma trans. by Edwin K. Mitchell, Boston Beacon Press, 1952; and 2 – in ...

XIX. CHOICE AND COUNTERCHOICE A. Abba Timotheos II Successor of Dioscorus. Pastoral Tour. Another exiled Pope. New Emperor. Imp ...

continuing to support Proterius, and regarded the Egyptians as rebels deserving of punishment. Reacting to this attitude, Abba ...

Minor, the multitudes hastened to greet him as if he had been a triumphant hero.^4 Nonetheless another intruder was imposed on t ...

predecessor. He asked the Emperor and got his permission to carry with him the body of the maligned Confessor Abba Dioscorus. Ar ...

B. Abba Petros III Election of successor to Timotheos. Zeno usurps the throne and appoints an intruder. Egyptian Delegates meet ...

have their own elected Pope to be the Head of their Church. The negotiations with the Emperor were effective, and in a propitiou ...

Eutyches. We also accept the twelve anathemas of Abba Kyrillos of blessed memory; we confess that our Lord God Jesus the Christ, ...

love were exchanted between Abba Petros and the Bishops of Constantinople and Jerusalem. Writing to Abba Petros, Acacisu address ...

XIX. NOTES Guettee, V, p. 197. A.M. di Ligouri, Histoire des Heresies. P. 267. H.B. Sawiris Ya’Kub, op. cit., v. II, p. 210. Ib ...

XX. FLUCTUATING FORTUNES OF THE COPTS UNDER THE EASTERN EMPERORS A. “A time for peace ...” B. “... and a time for war” (Eccles. ...

The life and services of Daniel, priest of Shiheat, and of the monks under him. A. 345. In the ensuing decades, the story of t ...

In the year 480 A.D., during the reign of Emperor Zeno, Abba Petros III died, having accomplished his earthly mission. The five ...

Patriarchs, and in particulr towards its saintly desert- dwellers of the monasteries. Emperor Zeno had only two daughters, one f ...

remaining daughter, and having heard that many of the saintly Egyptian desert fathers were endowed with the gift of spiritual he ...

Hilarion returned to his elected spiritual home in the Egyptian deserts. The reason why Anastasius was sympathetic was that at ...

preferred the use of one medium. Fragments of delicate masterpieces from this era are still extant in sculpture, portraits, text ...

of Christians ...”^6 Thus did Cosmos instruct his compatriots and rouse their imagination. Scientists, too, found the relaxed at ...