***Pope Benedict XVI approved Bishop Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak as the new Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts in Egypt, granting him “ecclesiastical communion.’’***
Didn’t one of the resident Catholics here on FR recently declare the Copts to be a product of heretics?
Found it! Post #7
To: Citizen Tom Paine
“the Coptic Church is a 5th-6th century product of schism and heresy.”
7 posted on Saturday, December 29, 2012 7:10:55 PM by vladimir998
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2973256/posts
You wrote:
“Didn’t one of the resident Catholics here on FR recently declare the Copts to be a product of heretics?”
Yep, and I was right too.
“Found it! Post #7”
And the Copts are products of heresy. The Coptic Catholics are those Copts who renounced their heresy and schism. Perhaps you didn’t know they have been two different groups for several centuries now. Most Protestants are too ignorant to know such things since they barely know anything about Church history.
I was right then, and I’m right now. Thanks for playing.
After the Coptic Church and orthodoxy (Catholic+Eastern Orthodox) had a schism, then they went their own way, but in 1442, a delegation of the Coptic Orthodox Church signed the Cantate Domino to join the Catholic Church.
The person referred to in this post is a head of a Catholic patriarchate. This Coptic Catholic Church is part of the Catholic Church