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==Coptic Christianity today==
[[Image:Coptic festival.jpg|thumb|450px|left|Coptic Festival in Upper Egypt.]]
The current Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria is Pope [[Shenouda III(Gayyid) of Alexandria|Shenouda III]]. There is a small [[Coptic Catholic Church]] ([[Eastern Rite Catholic]]) which is headed by a Patriarch of Alexandria. The [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church]] has little presence in Egypt, but is headed by a Patriarch of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem.
By some accounts there are more than 40 million Coptic Orthodox Christians in the world: they are found primarily in Egypt (roughly 10 million), Ethiopia (roughly 30 million), and Eritrea (roughly 2 million), but there are significant numbers in Sudan and Israel, and in diaspora throughout the world. However, as applied to the [[Church of Ethiopia|Tewahedo Church of Ethiopia]], which before 1950 was a part of the Coptic Church of Egypt, the word ''Coptic'' can be considered a misnomer because it means ''Egyptian''. The [[Church of Eritreat|Eritrean Orthodox Church]] similarly became independent of the Tewahedo Church during the 1990s. These three churches remain in [[full communion]] with each other and with the other [[Oriental Orthodoxy|Oriental Orthodox]] churches.
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