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A1.21021 Church of the East in America (1959, Vashon, WA)
A1.2103 Church of South India (India and Ceylon, 5 th century)
A1.2104 Holy Orthodox Catholic Church, Eastern and Apostolic (1938,
Tarzana, CA)
A1.2105 Catholic Apostolic Church in America (1950, San Francisco,
California)
A1.2106 American Orthodox Church (Philippines; 1981, Los Angeles, California)
A1.2199 Other Nestorian Groups
A1.2200 THE MONOPHYSITE FAMILY
Overview: rejects the Chalcedonian Creed and its "orthodox" view of the
nature of Christ; monophysite = "one nature" = the human and divine in
Christ constituted only one nature, not two--one human and one divine.
A1.2201 Syrian Orthodox Church (Jabobite) of Antioch and All the East (1 st
century, Antioch; now in Damascus, Syria; 1949, New Jersey)
A1.2202 Syrian Orthodox Church of Malabar (6 th century, southwest India;
1960s, New York City)
A1.2203 Armenian Apostolic Church (1 st century, Kingdom of Armenia)
A1.22031 Armenian Apostolic Church, Dioceses of America (1889, Worcester,
MA)
A1.22032 Armenian Apostolic Church, Prelate of the East (1889, New York
City)
A1.22033 Armenian Apostolic Church, Prelate of the West (1927, Fresno, CA)
A1.22034 Armenian Apostolic Church, Prelate of Canada (1984, Willowdale,
Ontario)
A1.22035 Armenian Apostolic Church of America (1933, New York City, NY)
A1.2299 Other Monophysite Groups
A1.2300 COPTIC CHURCH FAMILY
Overview: Patriarchate of Alexandria, now located in Cairo; prior to 450
AD the Christian Church in Egypt, the Coptic Church, was among the
largest in Christendom; but after its patriarch, Dioscurus, was deposed
by the Council of Chalcedon, the Coptic believers suffered persecution by
other Christians and later [after 640 AD] by the Arabs; many Coptics use
the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great [born 330 AD]; there is particular
devotion to the Virgin Mary.
A1.2301 Coptic Orthodox Church (Cairo, Egypt)
A1.23011 Coptic Orthodox Church in America (1962, New York)
A1.2302 Ethiopian Orthodox Church (1st century; origin traced to the
conversion of the Ethiopian eunoch by Phillip; the Abyssinians became
Christians in the 4th century and were under the jurisdiction of the
Coptic Church in Alexandria; "See" now in Addis Abba, Ethiopia)
A1.23021 Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church, Diocese of North and South
America (1959, New York)
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