sources: SRC_DAVIS_EARLY_COPTIC_PAPACY

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SRC_DAVIS_EARLY_COPTIC_PAPACY Stephen J. Davis, The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership in Late Antiquity (American University in Cairo Press, 2004)   secondary scholarship Standard scholarly history of the Alexandrian patriarchate and the formation of the Coptic (miaphysite) Church from its origins through late antiquity; covers the papal succession, the monastic movement (Anthony, Pachomius, the Kellia/Scetis fathers, Shenoute and the White Monastery), the post-Chalcedonian schism, the major Coptic martyrs of the Diocletianic persecution, and the leadership culture that shaped figures down to the modern Coptic papacy.

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