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*as of ‘13 OCTOBER 2023’*
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*”theophilus” was the 23rd Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the “See of St. Mark”*
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(he became Pope at a time of conflict between the newly dominant Christians and the pagan establishment in Alexandria, each of which was supported by a segment of the Alexandrian populace)
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(‘Edward Gibbon’ described him as “…the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue, a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood”)
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☜*“THE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH”* ☞
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