Coptic means belonging or relating to a part of the Christian Church which was started in Egypt. The Coptic Church is among the oldest churches of Christianity
{s} of or pertaining to the Copts (people descended from the ancient Egyptians); of or pertaining to the Coptic Church (native Egyptian Christian church)
The ancient language of the Khemites when they were part of the Empire of the Blue Star
the liturgical language of the Coptic Church used in Egypt and Ethiopia; written in the Greek alphabet of or relating to the Copts or their church or language or art; "the distinctive Coptic art of 6th-century Christian Egypt
The Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts, which survives only as a liturgical language of the Coptic Church
A term relating to the church or liturgical language of the Copts, a group reputedly descended from the ancient Egyptians who preserved an early form of Christianity Using Greek letters to record the Egyptian language, Coptic editors produced the Nag Hammadi library (found in 1945), which includes, among other Christian documents, the only complete manuscript of the Gospel of Thomas Corinth A cosmopolitan center of trade and commerce in ancient Greece, destroyed by the Romans in 146 b c e but later rebuilt Home of a large population of Hellenistic Jews, Corinth was later a Christian center established by the apostle Paul and his associates (Acts 18: 24; 19: 1; 1 and 2 Cor )
the liturgical language of the Coptic Church used in Egypt and Ethiopia; written in the Greek alphabet
The Christian church of Egypt, with dioceses elsewhere in Africa and the Near East, having a liturgy in Coptic and a Monophysite doctrine. a Christian religious group that is separate from the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox churches, and was formed in Egypt in the 1st century AD. Although most Egyptians are Muslims, there is a small number of Coptic Christians
Principal Christian church in Egypt. Until the 19th century it was called simply the Egyptian Church. It agrees doctrinally with Eastern Orthodoxy except that it holds that Jesus has a purely divine nature and never became human, a belief the Council of Chalcedon rejected (see Monophysite heresy) in AD 451. After the Arab conquest (7th century), service books were written with Coptic and Arabic in parallel texts. Church government is democratic, and the patriarch, who resides in Cairo, is elected. There are congregations outside Egypt, especially in Australia and the U.S., and the church is in communion with the Ethiopian, Armenian, and Syrian Jacobite churches
Since the 7th century the Coptic Church has been so isolated from modifying influences that in many respects it is the most ancient monument of primitive Christian rites and ceremonies
The native church of Egypt or church of Alexandria, which in general organization and doctrines resembles the Roman Catholic Church, except that it holds to the Monophysitic doctrine which was condemned a