Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa (Greek-orthodoxe)
The Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa is the canonical jurisdiction autocéphale of orthodoxe Église in Egypt and in all the Africa. The chief of the Church carries the title of Pape and Patriarche of Alexandria and all Africa , with residence with Alexandria in Egypt (titular current: Its Bliss Theodore II since the October 9th 2004).
The title of Patriarche of Alexandria is currently carried also by two other chiefs of Church.
History
See also: Church of Alexandria
The orthodoxe Church of Alexandria east one of the heiresses of the antique Church of Alexandria which is one of the first Christian Churches. According to the tradition, it would have been rested by the apostle and evangelist Marc.
12th century the Church adopts the Byzantine Rite.
1365 the town of Alexandria east put at bag by the Latin king of Cyprus.
1517 the patriarch settles with Constantinople.
1811 the patriarch is reinstalled in Alexandria.
2007 an orthodoxe seminar (D) opens in Alexandria, after a 460 years interruption.
Organization
In Egypt
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Archdiocese of Alexandria (two seats: with Alexandria and the Cairo)
- Archdiocese of Hermopolis (Tanta)
- Archdiocese of Memphis (Héliopolis)
- Archdiocese of Péluse (Port-Saïd)
- Archdiocese of Léontopolis (Ismaïlia)
- Archdiocese of Ptolemais (High-Egypt)
In the remainder of Africa
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Archdiocese of Aksoum (Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia)
- Archdiocese of Irinoupolis (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania)
- Diocese of Bukoba
- Archdiocese of the Kenya
- Archdiocese of Kampala and all the Uganda
- Archdiocese of Johannesbourg and Pretoria (South Africa)
- Archdiocese of the Cape of Good-Espérence (the Cape, South Africa)
- Archdiocese of the Nigeria
- Archdiocese of Tripoli (Libya)
- Archdiocese of Carthage (Tunis)
- Archdiocese of Khartoum and all the Sudan
- Archdiocese of the Zimbabwe
- Archdiocese of central Africa (Kinshasa, RD Congo)
- Diocese of Kolwezi
- Archdiocese of the Cameroun
- Diocese of Zambia
- Diocese of the Ghana
- Diocese of Madagascar
- Diocese of the Mozambique
Orthodoxy in sub-Saharan Africa
See also: Orthodoxy in sub-Saharan Africa
Limited a long time to Egypt and the Greek and syro-Lebanese communities in Africa, the Church has experienced for several decades a development in sub-Saharan Africa.
See too
Internal bonds
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List of the primacies of the orthodoxe Church of Alexandria
- Orthodoxy in sub-Saharan Africa
- orthodoxe Church copte
- Catholic church copte
External bonds
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Official site of the Church
- OrthodoxWiki - Church off Alexandria
- the Community orthodoxe of Arab language of orthodoxe Egypt
- Church in South Africa
- Archdiocese of Johannesbourg and Pretoria
- Archdiocese of Zimbabwe
- the Solidarity-East Werk voor het Oosten
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