Church of Alexandria

The Church of Alexandria is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Churches. Its primate is the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, the successor to the Apostle Mark the Evangelist, who founded the Church of Alexandria in the 1st century. It is one of the five ancient patriarchates of the early Church, called the Pentarchy.
== History ==
Since the schism occurring as a result of the political and Christological controversies at the Council of Chalcedon (451 A.D.), the portion of the Church of Alexandria loyal to Chalcedonian Christology has liturgically been Greek-speaking, the majority of its native (i.e., Coptic) population and their modern descendents becoming a part of the Coptic Orthodox Church (i.e., non-Chalcedonian).
== The Church today ==
In recent years, a considerable missionary effort was enacted by Pope Petros VII. During his seven years as patriarch (1997-2004), he worked tirelessly to spread the Orthodox Christian faith in Arab nations and throughout Africa, raising up native clergy and encouraging the use of local languages in the liturgical life of the Church. Missions spread and thrived in Kenya, Uganda, Madagascar, Cameroon, and elsewhere across the African continent. 
Particularly sensitive to the nature of Christian expansion into Muslim countries, His Beatitude worked to promote mutual understanding and respect between Orthodox Christians and Muslims. His efforts were ended as the result of a helicopter crash on September 11, 2004, in the Aegean Sea near Greece, killing him and several other clergy, including Bishop Nektarios of Madagascar, another bishop with a profound missionary vision.
Today, some 300,000 Orthodox Christians comprise the Patriarchate of Alexandria, the highest number since the Roman Empire. The current primate of the Church of Alexandria is His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa.
==The Episcopacy==
===The Holy Synod===
*His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa
*His Eminence Paul (Lyngris), Elder Archbishop of Memphis
*His Eminence Dionysios (Hatzivasiliou), Elder Archbishop of Leontopolis
*His Eminence Petros (Giakoumelos), Elder Archbishop of Aksum
*His Eminence Makarios (Tillyrides), Archbishop of Kenya
*His Eminence Jonah (Lwanga), Archbishop of Kampala and All Uganda
*His Eminence Seraphim (Iakovou), Archbishop of Johannesburg and Pretoria
*His Eminence Alexander (Gianniris), Metropolitan of Nigeria
*His Eminence Theophylaktos (Tzoumerkas), Metropolitan of Tripolis
*His Eminence Sergios, Archbishop of the Cape of Good Hope
*His Eminence Alexios, Metropolitan of Carthage
*His Eminence Ieronymos, Metropolitan of Mwanza
*His Eminence Kallinikos (Pippas), Archbishop of Pilousion
*His Eminence Proterios (Pavlopoulos), Metropolitan of Ptolemais
*His Eminence George (Vladimirou), Metropolitan of Zimbabwe
*His Eminence Nicholas, Archbishop of Ermoupolis
*His Eminence Dimitrios (Zaharengas), Metropolitan of Irinopolis
*His Eminence Ignatios (Madenlides), Archbishop of Central Africa
*His Eminence Emmanuel (Kiagias), Metropolitan of Khartoum and Sudan, Exarch of All Sudan
*His Eminence Gregory (Stergiou), Metropolitan of Cameroon, Exarch of Central Africa
===Diocesan Bishops===
*His Grace Ioakeim (Kontobas), Bishop of Zambia
*His Grace Damaskinos (Papandreou), Bishop of Ghana
*His Grace Ignatios (Sennis), Bishop of Madagascar
*His Grace Meletios (Kamiloudes), Bishop of Kolwezi
*His Grace Theodoros (Dimitriou), Bishop of Mozambique
===Auxiliary Bishops===
*His Grace Athanasios of Cyrene
*His Grace Gabriel of Mareotis
*His Grace Spyridon of Kanopou
*His Grace Nikodemos of Nitria
*His Grace Gennadios of Nilopolis
===Titular Archbishops===
*His Excellency Theoklitos of Helioupolis
*His Excellency Philemon of Karvasos
*His Excellency Ioakeim of Tamiathus
*His Excellency Porfyrios of Thivais
*His Excellency Kyrillos of Nafkratis 	
===Retired Bishops===
*His Grace Panteleimon of Antinoe
*His Grace Petros of Nikopolis
==Holy Archdioceses and Bishoprics==
Archdiocese 	Established 	See 	Jurisdiction
Archdiocese of Memphis 	?? 	Heliopolis, Cairo - Egypt 	
Archdiocese of Leontopolis 	?? 	Ismailia - Egypt 	Ismailia, Suez, Zagzik
Archdiocese of Pilousion 	?? 	Port Said - Egypt 	Port Said, Mansoura, Damiette, Kantara
Archdiocese of Ptolemais 	?? 	Minia - Egypt 	Upper Egypt, Luxor, Aswan, Minia, Fayum, Asiut, Beni Suef
Archdiocese of Ermoupolis 	?? 	Tanta – Egypt 	
Archdiocese of Tripolis 	1866,1959,2004	Tripoli - Libya 	Marsa Matrouh in Egypt, Libya
Archdiocese of Carthage 	1931 	Tunis - Tunisia 	Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco
Archdiocese of Cyrene 	?? 	 	
Archdiocese of Khartoum 	?? 	Khartoum - Sudan 	Sudan
Archdiocese of Aksum 	?? 	Addis-Abeba - Ethiopia 	Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia
Archdiocese of Kenya 	?? 	Nairobi - Kenya 	Kenya
Archdiocese of Kampala and All Uganda 	?? 	Kampala - Uganda 	Uganda
Archdiocese of Accra 	1997,2009 	Accra - Ghana 	Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia
Archdiocese of Nigeria 	1997,2004 	Lagos - Nigeria 	Nigeria, Niger, Benin, Togo
Archdiocese of Cameroon 	?? 	Yaounde - Cameroon 	Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Islands of St Thomas and Principe
Archdiocese of Central Africa 	?? 	Kinshasa - Democratic Republic of Congo	Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo-Brazazaville (Republic of the Congo)
Diocese of Katanga 	2006,2009 	Lubumbasi - Congo 	Katanga Province in the Congo
Diocese of Burundi and Rwanda 	2009 	Bujumbura in Burundi 	Burundi, Rwanda, a great area of the Eastern Congo
Archdiocese of Mwanza 	?? 	Bukoba - Tanzania 	Tanzania
Archdiocese of Irinoupolis 	?? 	Dar-es-Salaam - Tanzania 	Tanzania, Seychelle Islands
Archdiocese of Ζambia 	2001,2009 	Lusaka - Zambia 	Zambia, Malawi
Archdiocese of Zimbabwe 	?? 	Harare - Zimbabwe 	Zimbabwe, Angola, Malawi, Botswana
Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria	1927 	Johannesburg - South Africa 	(The areas from East Africa, the Equator down to the Cape of Good Hope)
Archdiocese of the Cape of Good Hope 	1968 	Cape Town - South Africa 	Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho, and the following areas of the Cape (West and East): Port Elizabeth, East London, Bloemfontein, Welkom, George, Knysna, Kimberley, Pietermaritzburg, all Natal
Diocese of Mozambique 	2006 	Maputo - Mozambique 	Mozambique
Diocese of Madagascar 	1997 	Antananarivo - Madagascar 	Madagascar, Islands of Mauritius, Reunion, Comores, Maillot
== See also ==
*Orthodoxy in Africa
==External links==
*The Patriarchate of Alexandria (Official site)
*Archbishopric of Johannesburg and Pretoria
*List of Patriarchs
*History of the Patriarchate
*The Metropolis of Cameroon Website (Official site)
*Eastern Christian Churches: Patriarchate of Alexandria by Ronald Roberson, a Roman Catholic priest and scholar
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