Journal article
Towards the Coptic Church: The making of the Severan Episcopate
- Abstract:
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This article concerns a seminal moment in the history of eastern Christianity: the creation of the Severan episcopate in Egypt (from A.D. 575), and with it the radical bifurcation, for the first time, of the ancient Egyptian church. Updating the classic account of Jean Maspero in the light of more recent publications, it first examines the rapid decline of the Severan episcopate in the period after the Alexandrian patriarch Theodosius’ exile (536), and the intense competition to replace him i...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- De Gruyter Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Millennium Journal website
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 151–190
- Publication date:
- 2018-04-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-04
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1867-0318
- ISSN:
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1867-030X
- Source identifiers:
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819927
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:819927
- UUID:
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uuid:e69c4182-cb11-4c09-af21-4cbfb9b3c082
- Local pid:
- pubs:819927
- Deposit date:
- 2018-01-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2018 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston.
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