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WHAT TITLES DID WE USE FOR OUR ECCLESIASTICAL ORDERS IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY?

IN OTHER WORDS: WHEN DID THE SAYYIDNA, THE ABNA AND THE QUDSAK TITLES APPEAR?

It’s always important to search in the history of the titles given to our Church orders. In a previous article, THE HORRIFIC HONORIFIC SYNDROME OF MODERN COPTS 1: INTRODUCTION, I have postulated that we used to address all our clergy by the simple common title ‘pa iwt’, meaning ‘my father’, and our clergymen used to…