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To: american colleen
In a post you made yesterday you used some link that I clicked on and found that some of the Orthodox Patriarch's actually request meetings with the popes. In fact, I was surprised that one of the Orthodox clergy on that site had a name beginning with "Pope"...

I checked all of my posts for the day you specified and am unable to find any link I posted as you describe here. None of our Orthodox clergy have ever used the title of "pope". It is my understanding that the word originated from the Italians, so I am fairly certain that you are confused here.
Please be kind enough to clear this up for me, in the interests of accuracy and to avoid slander of my church.

265 posted on 07/10/2003 4:40:17 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema
I read all of the posts on this thread and clicked on the links that you provided. From one of the links I came up with "Pope Shenouda" who is a Coptic(?) Orthodox. Could have been that I was reading your link and followed other links from it, I can't remember.

I don't remember the name of the website and I didn't bookmark it, but the name stayed with me as it began with "Pope" and that surprised me.

I don't know how you could think I am trying to slander your Church? I wouldn't ever do that.

268 posted on 07/10/2003 5:26:50 AM PDT by american colleen
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To: MarMema; american colleen
None of our Orthodox clergy have ever used the title of "pope".

She may be a little confused. The head of the Coptic church is called "Pope", but the Coptic church is a Monothelete church, and is not in communion with the Orthodox churches.

271 posted on 07/10/2003 7:21:10 AM PDT by malakhi
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