The Christian church founded in Egypt by St. Mark the Apostle
The Copts are the Christians of Egypt, the successors of the ancient Egyptians. Their Church has kept the faith of the apostles, the prayers of the desert fathers and the Coptic language in its worship for nearly two thousand years. This site is a reference to that Church: its story, its faith, its worship, its saints, its Bible and calendar, and where to find a Coptic church near you.
New to the Church? Read what we believe, the seven sacraments, how we worship and the lives of the saints.
Icon by Dr. Isaac Fanous, at St. Mark's Church, Jersey City.
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Our story
St. Mark, the Chair of Alexandria, the Catechetical School, the martyrs, and the monks and nuns of the desert.
What we believe
The Incarnation, the divinity and nature of Christ, the Holy Trinity, and the heresies the Church answered.
How we worship
The Liturgies of St. Basil, St. Gregory and St. Cyril; the Agpeya, the prayers of the hours; Holy Pascha and the month of Kiahk.
The saints
The Synaxarium: a saint or a feast for every day of the Coptic year, in English and Arabic, and the lives of forty well-loved saints.
The Church Fathers
Patrology: the School of Alexandria before Origen and in his time, by Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty.
The Coptic calendar
The calendar of the Martyrs, every feast and fast from 1902 to 2037, and the date of Easter and Christmas explained.
The Coptic language
The last stage of the language of ancient Egypt, still sung in the liturgy: its alphabet, its origin, greetings, fonts and a converter.
Our popes
H.H. Pope Tawadros II, the 118th Pope of Alexandria, and H.H. Pope Shenouda III, the 117th, with his books in English.
The Bible in English, Arabic and Coptic
الإنجيل العربيThe New King James Version, the Arabic Smith Van Dyke, and the New Testament in Bohairic and Sahidic Coptic. Read a chapter, look up a verse, or set two or three languages side by side.
John 3:16
Find a Coptic church near you
Coptic Orthodox churches across the United States and Canada, with their clergy, phone numbers and directions. Is your church missing? Let us know.
Say it in Coptic
Coptic is the language of the Copts, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language, in use in the services of the Church to this day. A few words from the greetings page:
Coptic fonts and typing
Type Coptic on Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone with the free keyboards, download Unicode fonts, and convert text from the old CS fonts to Coptic Unicode.