Coptic Catholic

Coptic Catholic Church

Classification	Catholic Church
Orientation	Eastern Catholic, Alexandrian Rite
Polity	Episcopal
Structure	Patriarchate
Leader	Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak
Associations	Congregation for the Oriental Churches
Region	Egypt, with communities in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America
Headquarters	Cairo
Founder	Mark the Evangelist
Origin	451 AD Separated From Coptic Orthodox Egypt
Separated from	Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
Merger of	Roman Catholic Church
Congregations	166 (2016)
Members	174,902 (2016)
Ministers	243
Official website	coptcatholic.net

The Coptic Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The Coptic Catholic Church uses the Alexandrian Rite. Uniquely among Eastern Catholic Churches, it also uses the Coptic language (derived from Ancient Egyptian, hence the name) in its liturgy, whereas the Ethiopian Catholic Church and Eritrean Catholic Church use the Alexandrian Rite in the Ge'ez language.

The current Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria is Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, who replaced Antonios Naguib in 2013. The offices of the Patriarchate are located in Cairo. The patriarchal Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt is in Nasr City, a suburb of Cairo.

Dyophysite Copts existed from the time of the 451 Council of Chalcedon. During the time of Pope Honorius, many Bohairic Copts are known to have preferred a more Miaphysite Christology in opposition to Monophysitism. However, over time, they were assimilated by the Alexandrian Melkites.