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website=[http://www.greekorthodox-alexandriapatriarchateofalexandria.orgcom/ index.php?lang=en Church of Alexandria]

When [[Alexander the Great]] conquered Egypt about 332-331 BC he established the city of Alexandria, named after him, from which his Greek-speaking successors, the Ptolemy dynasty, ruled Egypt. Alexandria also had many Greek-speaking Jewish inhabitants, and it was here that the Old Testament scriptures were translated into Greek, the [[Septuagint]] version. During the first century BC the city, and Egypt generally passed under Roman rule. St Mark, a disciple of [[Apostle Peter|St Peter]] evangelised Egypt in the middle of the first century. He probably arrived about AD 40, and met a martyr's death around AD 63. Little is known of the early history of the Church in Alexandria and Egypt, beyond a bare list of names of bishops. By the end of the second century, however, the church had begun to spread among the indigenous population, and the Scriptures and Liturgical texts were being translated into local languages. Since the [[schism]] occurring as a result of the political and [[Christology|Christological]] controversies at the [[Fourth Ecumenical Council|Council of Chalcedon]] (451 A.D.), the portion of the Church of Alexandria loyal to Chalcedonian [[Christology ]] has liturgically been Greek-speaking, the majority of its native (i.e., Coptic) population and their modern descendents becoming a part of the '''[[Church of Alexandria (Coptic)|Coptic Orthodox Church]]''' (i.e., [[Oriental Orthodox|non-Chalcedonian]]).

In recent years, a considerable missionary effort was enacted by Pope [[Petros VII (Papapetrou) of Alexandria|Petros VII]]. During his seven years as patriarch (1997-2004), he worked tirelessly to spread the Orthodox Christian [[faith]] in Arab nations and throughout Africa, raising up native [[clergy]] and encouraging the use of local languages in the liturgical life of the Church. Missions spread and thrived in Kenya, Uganda, [[Madagascar]], [[Cameroon]], and elsewhere across the African continent.

*His Eminence [[Paul (Lyngris) of Memphis|Paul (Lyngris)]], Metropolitan Elder Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Memphis|Memphis]]*His Eminence [[Dionysios (Hatzivasiliou) of Leontopolis|Dionysios (Hatzivasiliou)]], Metropolitan Elder Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Leontopolis|Leontopolis]]*His Eminence [[Petros (Giakoumelos) of Aksum|Petros (Giakoumelos)]], Metropolitan Elder Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Aksum|Aksum]]*His Eminence [[Makarios (Tillyrides) of Kenya|Makarios (TyliiridesTillyrides)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Kenya|Kenya]]*His Eminence [[Jonah (Lwanga) of Kampala and All Uganda|IonasJonah (Lwanga)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Kampala and all All Uganda|Kampala and All Uganda]]*His Eminence [[Seraphim Damaskinos (IakovouPapandreou) of Johannesburg and Pretoria|Seraphim Damaskinos (IakovouPapandreou)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria|Johannesburg and Pretoria]]*His Eminence [[Alexandros (Gianniris) of Nigeria|Alexander (Gianniris)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Nigeria|Nigeria]]*His Eminence [[Theophylaktos (Tzoumerkas) of Tripoli|Theophylaktos (Tzoumerkas)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Tripolis|Tripolis]]*His Eminence [[Sergios of the Cape of Good Hope|Sergios(Kykkotis)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of the Cape of Good Hope|the Cape of Good Hope]]*His Eminence [[Alexios (Leontaritis) of Carthage|Alexios]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Carthage|Carthage]]*His Eminence [[Ieronymos (Muzeeyi) of Mwanza|Ieronymos (Muzeeyi)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Mwanza|Mwanza]]*His Eminence [[Kallinikos (Pippas)of Pilousion|Kallinikos (Pippas)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of PelusionPilousion|Pilousion]]*His Eminence [[Proterios (Pavlopoulos) of Ptolemais|Proterios (Pavlopoulos)]], Metropolitan of [[Metropolis of Ptolemais|Ptolemais]]*His Eminence George [[Seraphim (Kykkotis) of Zimbabwe|Seraphim (VladimirouKykkotis)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Zimbabwe|Zimbabwe]]*His Eminence Nikolaos[[Nicholas of Ermoupolis|Nicholas]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of HermopolisErmoupolis|Ermoupolis]]*His Eminence [[Dimitrios (Zaharengas) of Irinopolis|Dimitrios (Zaharengas)]], Metropolitan of Irinoupolis[[Archdiocese of Irinopolis|Irinopolis]]*His Eminence Ignatios [[Nikiforos (MadenlidesMikragiannanitis)of Central Africa|Nikiforos (Mikragiannanitis)]], Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Central Africa|Central Africa]]*His Eminence [[Emmanuel (Kiagias) of Khartoum|Emmanuel(Kiagias)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Khartoum and all All Sudan|Khartoum and Sudan]], Exarch of All Sudan*His Eminence Gregorios[[Gregory (Stergiou) of Cameroon|Gregory (Stergiou)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Cameroon|Cameroon]], Exarch of Central Africa*His Eminence [[George (Vladimirou) of Accra|George (Vladimirou)]], Archbishop of [[Archdiocese of Accra|Accra]]*His Eminence [[Ioakeim (Kontobas) of Zambia|Ioakeim (Kontobas)]], Archbishop of [[Diocese of Zambia|Zambia]]

*His Grace Ieronymos[[Savvas (Heimonettos) of Burundi and Rwanda|Savvas (Heimonettos)]], Bishop of Bukoba[[Diocese of Burundi and Rwanda|Burundi]]*His Grace Ioakim [[Ignatios (Sennis) of Madagascar|Ignatios (KontobasSennis)]], Bishop of Zambia[[Diocese of Madagascar|Madagascar]]*His Grace Damaskinos[[Meletios (Kamiloudes) of Katanga|Meletios (Kamiloudes)]], Bishop of Ghana[[Diocese of Katanga|Katanga]]*His Grace Ignatios[[Theodoros (Dimitriou) of Mozambique|Theodoros (Dimitriou)]], Bishop of Madagascar[[Diocese of Mozambique|Mozambique]]*His Grace Meletios, Bishop [[Gennadios of Kolwezi*His Grace TheodorosBotswana]], Bishop of MozambiqueBotswana

*His Grace Gennadios Niphon of NilopolisBabylon ===Titular Archbishops===*His Excellency Theoklitos of Helioupolis*His Excellency Philemon of Karvasos*His Excellency Ioakeim of Tamiathus*His Excellency Porfyrios of Thivais*His Excellency Kyrillos of Nafkratis

*His Grace Theoklitos Eminence [[Panteleimon (Lampadarios) of Antinoe|Panteleimon of Antinoe]] ==Holy Archdioceses and Bishoprics== {| border="1" !Archdiocese||Established||See||Jurisdiction |- |[[Archdiocese of Memphis]]||??||Heliopolis, Cairo - '''Egypt'''|| |- |[[Archdiocese of Leontopolis]]||??||Ismailia - '''Egypt'''||''Ismailia, Suez, Zagzik'' |- |[[Archdiocese of HelioupolisPilousion]]||??||Port Said - '''Egypt'''||''Port Said, Mansoura, Damiette, Kantara''*His Grace Philemon |- |[[Metropolis of Ptolemais|Archdiocese of KarvasosPtolemais]]||??||Minia - '''Egypt'''||''Upper Egypt, Luxor, Aswan, Minia, Fayum, Asiut, Beni Suef'' |-*His Grace Ioakeim |[[Archdiocese of TamiathusErmoupolis]]||??||Tanta – '''Egypt'''||*His Grace Porfyrios |- |[[Archdiocese of ThivaisTripolis]]||1866,<br>1959,<br>2004||Tripoli - Libya||''''[[Libya]]''''*His Grace Panteleimon |- |[[Archdiocese of Carthage]]||1931||Tunis - Tunisia||'''[[Tunisia]], Algeria, Mauritania, [[Morocco]]''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Cyrene]]||2009||||''Marsa Matrouh in Egypt'' |- |[[Archdiocese of Khartoum and All Sudan|Archdiocese of Khartoum]]||??||Khartoum - Sudan||'''Sudan''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Aksum]]||??||Addis-Abeba - Ethiopia||'''Ethiopia, [[Eritrea]], [[Djibouti]], Somalia''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Kenya]]||??||Nairobi - Kenya||'''Kenya''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Kampala and All Uganda]]||1959||Kampala - [[Uganda]]||'''Uganda''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Accra]]||1997,<br>2009||Accra - [[Ghana]]||'''Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, [[Sierra Leone]], Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Nigeria]]||1997,<br>2004||Lagos - Nigeria||'''Nigeria, Niger, Benin, Togo''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Cameroon]]||??||Yaounde - Cameroon||'''Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea''', Islands of '''St Thomas''' and '''Principe''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Central Africa]]||??||Kinshasa - Democratic Republic of Congo||'''Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo-Brazaville (Republic of the Congo)''' |- |[[Diocese of Katanga]]||2006,<br>2009||Lubumbasi - Congo||''Katanga Province in the Congo'' |- |[[Diocese of Burundi and Rwanda]]||2009||Bujumbura in Burundi||'''Burundi, Rwanda''', ''a great area of the Eastern Congo'' |- |[[Archdiocese of Mwanza]]||??||Bukoba - Tanzania||'''Tanzania''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Irinoupolis]]||1959||Dar-es-Salaam - Tanzania||'''Tanzania, Seychelle Islands''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Zambia]]||2001,<br>2009||Lusaka - Zambia||'''Zambia, Malawi''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Zimbabwe]]||??||Harare - Zimbabwe||'''Zimbabwe, [[Angola]], Malawi, Botswana''' |- |[[Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria]]||1927||Johannesburg - South Africa||''(The areas from East Africa, the Equator down to the Cape of Good Hope)'' |- |[[Archdiocese of the Cape of Good Hope]]||1968||Cape Town - South Africa||'''Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho''', and the following areas of the Cape (West and East): ''Port Elizabeth, East London, Bloemfontein, Welkom, George, Knysna, Kimberley, Pietermaritzburg, all Natal'' |- |[[Diocese of AntinoeMozambique]]||2006||Maputo - Mozambique||'''Mozambique''' |-*His Grace Kyrillos |[[Diocese of Nafkratis Madagascar]]||1997||Antananarivo - Madagascar||'''Madagascar''', Islands of '''Mauritius, Reunion, Comores, Maillot'''*His Grace Petros |-|[[Diocese of NikopolisBrazzaville and Gabon]]||2010||Brazzaville||Congo, Brazzaville, Gabon |}

*[http://www.greekorthodox-alexandriapatriarchateofalexandria.orgcom/ index.php?lang=en The Patriarchate of Alexandria] (Official site)<!-- *[http://www.greece.org/gopatalex/SA/ Archbishopric of Johannesburg and Pretoria]--->*[http://www.greekorthodox-alexandriapatriarchateofalexandria.orgcom/History/list_patrindex.htm List of php?module=content&cid=001003 Previous Patriarchs]*[http://www.greekorthodox-alexandriaorthodoxresearchinstitute.org/Historyarticles/church_history/hist_patrmakarios_patriarchate_alexandria.htm html History of the Patriarchate]<!-- *[http://www.cnewametropolisofcameroon.org/eccThe Metropolis of Cameroon Website] (Official site) ---> ==Sources==*[http://www.patriarchateofalexandria.com/index.php?module=content&cid=004001 Patriarchate of Alexandria website -bodypgArchdioceses]*[http://www.patriarchateofalexandria.com/index.php?module=content&cid=004002 Patriarchate of Alexandria website -usDioceses]*[http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?eccpageIDID=14&IndexViewpagetypeID=9&sitecode=HQ&pageno=toc 1 Eastern Christian Churches: Patriarchate of Alexandria] by Ronald Roberson, a Roman Catholic priest and scholar