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Critical Appraisal in Response to Hegumen Youhanna Nassif’s Thesis on “Rectifying the Coptic Calendar, and Adjusting the Date of the Nativity Feast” (Fifth Edit)
† One of servants of the Coptic Church would hereby like to present a response to a thesis done by Hegumen Father Youhanna Nassif on rectifying the Coptic calendar, and adjusting the celebration of the Nativity feast, in the manner of a “critical appraisal”, following along the lines of an article written by Father John Ramzy,…
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A Paper on the “Impossibility of Moving Coptic Feasts”
† One of the servants of the Coptic Church would hereby like to present a research to elaborate on the impracticality of changing the dates of the Coptic calendar, and more generally Coptic feasts and other occasions. The writer obtained motivation to conduct this research from a respected deacon, Dr Bishoy Fr Raphael of Alexandria,…
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