The Copts and the construction of religious authority
Gaétan Du Roy University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium icon-calendar December 3, 2015 Gaétan Du Roy presented his doctoral research on Fr. Samʿān, an Egyptian Coptic Orthodox priest born in 1941, who gained celebrity by building a huge church complex in the neighborhood of Muqaṭṭam in Cairo, home of 30,000 ragpickers since the
December 5th, 2015