This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

Such was the doctrine of the church during the three first centuries ... the number and duration of heresies would have been less but the popes and bishops of the fourth century, profiting ...

On March 18, the Catholic Church honors St. Cyril of Jerusalem, a fourth-century bishop and doctor of the Church whose ...

2, No. 2, Feb., Mar., Apr., 1927 The Early Church Persecution of Paganism... The Early Church Persecution of Paganism and Heresy This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.