Copts in the "Egyptian fabric"

Middle East Report

Volumn , Issue 200, 1996, Pages 21-22

  Al Gawhary, Karim ^a  

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EID: 5744238978     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3013263     Document Type: Article

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1. The word "Copt" is used by most Egyptians as a synonym for all Egyptian Christians. This article does so as well because the issue of minorities or discrimination does not differentiate among the various denominations. The majority of Egyptian Christians follow the Orthodox church in Egypt, with their own Pope. According to Orthodox traditions, this church was founded by Saint Mark somewhere between 48-64 AD. A small portion of Egyptian Christians follow the Catholic and Protestant churches which were introduced later in Egypt. The exact percentage of Christians in Egypt is contested. The 1976 census records six percent (CAMPAS November 1976 Statistics). Ecclesiastical sources speak of 18 percent (D. B. Bartett, ed., World's Christian Encyclopedia (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 2. Marlyn Tadrous, at the mentioned Cyprus conference, recommended that the Egyptian government make proper and reliable statistics available to prevent exaggeration and the misuse of existing statistics. See The Copts of Egypt (London: Minority Rights Group International in cooperation with the Ibn Khaldoun Center, 1996).
2. The word "Copt" is used by most Egyptians as a synonym for all Egyptian Christians. This article does so as well because the issue of minorities or discrimination does not differentiate among the various denominations. The majority of Egyptian Christians follow the Orthodox church in Egypt, with their own Pope. According to Orthodox traditions, this church was founded by Saint Mark somewhere between 48-64 AD. A small portion of Egyptian Christians follow the Catholic and Protestant churches which were introduced later in Egypt. The exact percentage of Christians in Egypt is contested. The 1976 census records six percent (CAMPAS November 1976 Statistics). Ecclesiastical sources speak of 18 percent (D. B. Bartett, ed., World's Christian Encyclopedia (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 2. Marlyn Tadrous, at the mentioned Cyprus conference, recommended that the Egyptian government make proper and reliable statistics available to prevent exaggeration and the misuse of existing statistics. See The Copts of Egypt (London: Minority Rights Group International in cooperation with the Ibn Khaldoun Center, 1996).
3. Al-Ahali December 20, 1995.