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| | Epiphany - Mother of Churches |
 | | The Church of Alexandria, along with the Copts of Ethiopea, the Jacobites in Syria and the Armenians rejected the resolutions of the Council of Chalcedon and were henceforth out of communion with the Churches of Rome and Constantinople and were referred to as the non-Chalcedonian or Monophyisite churches. |
 | | As a result of the original breach in the unity of the Universal Church, the Patriarchate of Alexandria, then second only to the Patriarchate of Rome in dignity, was replaced by the Church of Constantinople. |
 | | The Coptic Church is currently under the spiritual leadership of His Holiness, Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of Alexandria, who along with other Coptic hierarchs, met on February 25, 2000, with Pope John Paul II during the latter's visit to Egypt during which the Pope's hopes for unity of the churches were discussed. |
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