St. Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church (Woodbury, New York)

Infobox church
name = St. Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church
fullname =
color = skyblue

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imagesize = 200px
caption = A view of St. Abraam's Church from outside.
denomination = Coptic Orthodox Church
diocese = Archdiocese of North America, under the Pope of Alexandria
division = The Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate
subdivision =
founded_date = 1978
founder =
architect =
style = Coptic
constructed_date = 1990 [http://www.stabraam.org/church/center/index.php]
demolished_date =
bishop = HH Pope Shenouda III
priest = Fr. Girgis S. Tadros
archdeacon =
address = 90 Woodbury Road Woodbury, NY
country = United States of America
phone = [phone]
website = http://www.stabraam.org/

St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church (Coptic: Coptic|Ϯⲉⲕ⳿ⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ ⳿ⲛⲣⲉⲙ⳿ⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⳿ⲛⲟⲣⲑⲟⲇⲟⲝⲟⲥ ⳿ⲛⲧⲉ ⲫⲏⲉⲑⲟⲩⲁⲃ Ⲁⲃⲣⲁⲁⲙ // transliteration: "ti.eklyseya en.remenkimi en.orthodoxos ente fi.ethowab Abra'am") is a Coptic Orthodox parish in Woodbury, New York. It is one of over 200 Coptic Orthodox Churches in the United States. [" [http://copticchurch.net/news/press_release/20050120_armanious_murder_jersey_city.html Coptic Church Urges Thorough Investigation In Murder of Jersey City Family] ". "Coptic Church Network", January 20, 2005. Accessed August 11, 2008.] [ [http://www.cnewa.org/ecc-bodypg-us.aspx?eccpageID=6&IndexView=toc CNEWA:The Coptic Orthodox Church] (Retrieved 17-07-2008)]

History of the Building

St. Abraam's Church was incorporated by 20 families residing in Long Island on January 1978, [http://www.nacopts.com/viewChurch.php?id=146 Data on St. Abraam Church] (Retrieved 20-07-2008)] only five years after the first Coptic Orthodox parishes in New York were founded in Ridgewood, Queens and Brooklyn, New York. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20050304022037/www.stgeorgecoc.org/about.htm Saint George Church - Brooklyn NY ] ] For over a decade, these families used a Ukrainian church in Hicksville for accommodating weekly Liturgies. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DA1F30F932A35754C0A966958260&n=Top/News/Science/Topics/Animals NY Times] ] In September of 1989, HH Pope Shenouda III blessed the endowned lands in preparation for building the church.

After the church was built in 1990, in a pastoral visit by HH Pope Shenouda, the parish was consecrated in January of the following year. It was the first Coptic Orthodox Church in Long Island, New York.

St. Abraam's Church serves areas in and around Long Island, particularly in Nassau County, which is just east of Queens borough. The closest Coptic Orthodox parish is St. Mary & St. Antonios Coptic Orthodox Church, in Ridgewood, Queens. St. Abraam Church was served by multiple priests such as Fr. Marcos Ghaly of Toledo, Ohio, [ [http://www.stmarkcoccleveland.org/frmarcos.html Short Biography of Fr. Marcos Ghaly] (Retrieved 08-04-2008)] as the Coptic Orthodox clergy in North America often visit or temporarily serve churches that are still developing. However, from recent years, Fr. Girgis Tadros was made a permanent priest of the church up until now, of which there is only one priest. There are currently about 300 Coptic families served by St. Abraam's Church.

References

External links

* [http://www.stabraam.org/ The official website of St. Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church]
* [http://www.nacopts.org/ The Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of North America]
* [http://www.nacopts.com/ Directory & Statistics on Coptic Orthodox Churches in North America]

ee also

*Coptic Orthodox Church
*Seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria
*Coptic architecture
*Coptic Cairo
*Coptic Orthodox Church in North America
**Coptic Orthodox Church in Canada
**Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States
**List of Coptic Orthodox Churches in the United States
***St. George Coptic Orthodox Church (Brooklyn)
***St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church (Jersey City, New Jersey)
***St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church (Jersey City, New Jersey)
***St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church (Los Angeles)
***St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
***St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church (Los Angeles)