History
In the schism that was created by the political and Christological controversies at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, the Church of Alexandria split in two. The majority of the native (i.e., Coptic) population was non-Chalcedonian and became known as the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. The portion of the original Church of Alexandria that follows Chalcedonian Christology has long used Greek as its liturgical language, and it became the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria. After the Arab conquest of North Africa in the 7th century the Eastern Orthodox were a minority in the region, even among Christians, and the church remained small for centuries.
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