History of Patriarch of Alexandria

[QuantaCura]

Hi guys. My knowledge of this area is admitteedly fuzzy at best. Pope Shenouda III is the Patriarch of Alexandria. I know there is also a Greek Patriarch of Alexandria (and there was a titular Latin one in the second millenium for a while too). My question is how did the two patriarch's come about? Did the Patriarch of Alexandria not accept Chalcedon and then the Greeks appointed a new Patriarch? Or was it the other way around. Thanks for your help! :holy:

[copticorthodoxy]

The official Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria is the Pope Shenouda III the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church , more than 96 % of the Egyptian Christians belong to the Alexandrian Coptic Orthodox Church . which is the basic and the offical Church for St. Mark see

There are a Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and we believe that this Patriarchate established after the 4th counil division for the Chalcedonian believers and i think there were no Egyptians belong to it and in the modern age there were some greeks in Alexandria so they belonged to it and now the Eastern Orthodox Arabs who live in Egypt belong to it , they are very few families from Syria , Lebanon and Palistine
also the Greek Orthodox Patriarch is from Greece

The Latin one is for the western Catholics who live or work at Egypt

There is also a Coptic Catholic Patriarch , there are a very few Copts who converted to the Catholic Church , it is a new Patriarchate

[QuantaCura]

Thanks! That's what I though, but I just wanted to make sure :thumbsup: