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The '''Catechetical School of Alexandria''' was the oldest and most renowned of the Christian schools of the early Christian Church. The school was the focus for the development of the first system of Christian theology and the allegorical method of biblical exegesis. After the [[Christology|Christological]] controversies of the fifth and sixth centuries its influence waned. During the last decade of the nineteenth century the [[Church of Alexandria (Coptic)|Coptic Church of Alexandria]] in concept re-established the Catechetical school as the Coptic Theological Seminary.
==History==