His Holiness Pope Shenouda III

117th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark

A Brief Biography by the V. Rev. Archpriest Mikhail E. Mikhail, D.Min. Pastor, St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Cleveland

From the land of the great ancient Egyptian civilization, the land visited by Our Lord and the Holy Family and from the line of renowned predecessors such as St. Mark the Apostle, St. Athanasius the Apostolic, and St. Cyril the Great, comes the author of the renaissance of the Coptic Orthodox Church: H. H. Pope Shenouda III.

Welcome to St. Abanoub Coptic Orthodox Church, a member of the Diocese of the Southern United States, our church has proudly served the Dallas community.

Our goal is to maintain and share the faith and teachings of the Apostolic Era to today’s believers. Through fellowship and commitment to our faith, the Coptic Orthodox Church survived for almost 2,000 years and has made its way to the DFW Metroplex.

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As St. Mary the Mother of God (Theotokos) and the Virgin was always praying in the holy sepulchre, the Holy Spirit informed her that she was about to depart from this temporal world. When the time of her departure arrived, the virgins of the Mount of Olives came to her, with the apostles, who were still alive, and they surrounded her bed. The Lord Jesus Christ, to Whom is the glory, with a host of thousands and thousands of angels came to her and comforted her and told her about the eternal joy that was prepared for her, and she rejoiced. The apostles and the virgins asked her to bless them. She stretched her hand and blessed them all, and she gave up her pure spirit in the hand of her Son and God, and He took her spirit to the heavenly mansions.