Church of Alexandria

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The Church of Alexandria in Egypt is one of the original four Apostolic churches of Christianity, with Rome, Antioch and Jerusalem (Constantinople was added later as the fifth).

The Church of Alexandria has jurisdiction over the Christians in all the African continent. In other words, all the Christian churches in Africa are considered daughter churches of the Church of Alexandria.

Today, three churches claim to be the direct heirs of the original Church of Alexandria:

• The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, an Oriental Orthodox church
• The Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria, also known as the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, an Eastern Orthodox Church
• The Coptic Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church