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Boswellia frereana

In the West B. frereana is called "Coptic Frankincense" as this is the type and grade used by the Coptic Church of Egypt.

Catechetical School of Alexandria

The new school currently has campuses in Alexandria, Cairo, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, where Coptic priests-to-be and other qualified men and women are taught on subjects including Christian theology, history, Coptic language and art – including chanting, music, iconography, and tapestry.

Egyptian parliamentary election, 2005

Of the most prominent politicians who lost in the elections are Ayman Nour, Tomorrow Party leader and the presidential candidate in the Egyptian Presidential election in September 2005, since arrested for corruption, also NDP's major reformer Hossam Badrawi, Amin Mubarak and long-time serving Fayda Kamel, and New Wafd's most prominent Coptic figure Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour.

Eric Scarboro

Recently he has promoted comedy gigs at The Copt Hill, Houghton Le Spring, Gateshead Fell Cricket Club and has recently compered for Edinburgh Previews for Simon Donald and Vladimir McTavish.

Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ

Severus Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (d. 987), Egyptian Copt Bishop, author and historian

Iris Habib Elmasry

Iris Habib Elmasry (إيريس حبيب المصري) was a prominent Coptic Historian (1910–1994).

Johann Michael Vansleb

Vansleb travelled extensively in Egypt during the next 12 months, making a journey as far down as Sohag, and produced one of the earliest accounts of Upper Egypt: documenting the land, the people (especially the Coptic community), and pharaonic monuments such as the Giza pyramids, the Sphinx and the pyramids of Hawara, as well as Coptic monuments, including the White Monastery.

Kamilia Shehata

Kamilia Shehata Zakher (born 1985) is a schoolteacher in Deir Mawas, Egypt, and the wife of Tadros Samaan, the Coptic Priest of Saint Mark's Church in Mowas Cathedral in Minya.

Orthodox Tewahedo

From then on, until 1959, the Pope of Alexandria, as Patriarch of All Africa, always named an Egyptian (a Copt) to be Abuna or Archbishop of the Ethiopian Church.


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