The Early Coptic Papacy
Subtitle: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership in Late Antiquity (Popes of Egypt) (Popes of Egypt)
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: January 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9789774248306
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Orthodox Churches; Religious & spiritual leaders; Religion; Egypt; Religion - World Religions; Christianity - Orthodox; History; Religion / Orthodox Churches; Coptic Christian saints; Christianity; Fathers of the church, Coptic
First sentence: On an early seventh-century ivory relief from Alexandria, now preserved in the Musee du Louvre in Paris (Fig. 1), the figure of Saint Mark the Evangelist appears in the foreground, seated on a throne and surrounded by a group of bishops who are gathered together beneath the gate of a city.