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The Coptic Church

Our Pope

Our Priest

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The Coptic Church

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the main Christian church in Egypt. The Church was established by Saint Mark the apostle (author of the Gospel of Mark) in 42 AD during his visit to Alexandria. The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, along with the Eritrean, Armenian, Syrian, Indian, and Ethiopian Orthodox churches which formed a distinct church body after the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD. Watch these videos to learn more about our church:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vrPIOOBU18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk_ejeeEwJ0

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Our Pope

Pope Tawadrous II is the 118th Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist. He is the head of The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate. He has served as Pope of Alexandria since November 18, 2012, after his predecessor, Pope Shenouda, departed in peace on March 17, 2012.
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Our Priest

Father David Milad was born and raised in Chicago, IL and served at St. Mark and St. Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Church. He completed his undergraduate studies in 2002 at Hope College in Holland, MI. In the summer of 2000 he went on a 6 week mission trip to South Africa with H.G. Bishop Antonious Markos. He then went to Arizona for medical school during which he served the high school youth of St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church of Scottsdale, AZ. He married Sarah Selim on July 18th, 2004 then moved to Maryland in 2005 as Sarah was starting Law School at American University. Fr. David and Sarah started serving at St. Mary's in 2006 and have gone on several mission trips with the youth of the church. Fr. David finished his Internal Medicine Residency in the spring of 2009. He was then ordained on May 23, 2010.

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