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EspañolPOPE HERACLAS OF ALEXANDRIA
'Pope Heraclas of Alexandria' served as the thirteenth Pope of Alexandria (head of the church that became the Coptic Church and the Orthodox Church of Alexandria) between 232 and 248.
He followed Origen as head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria.
He has been attributed as the first Bishop of Alexandria to carry the appellation of '"Pope"'. All the clergy of Alexandria and Lower Egypt honored him with the appellation "Papas", which means "Our Father", as the Senior and Elder Bishop among all bishops, within the Egyptian Province, who are under his jurisdiction. The use of the term "Pope" for the Vatican was not centuries later. Heraclas is commemorated in the Coptic ''Synaxarion'' on the 8th day of Koiak.
Papa has been the specific designation for the Archbishop of Alexandria, Patriarch of Egypt, and the See of Saint Mark, whose ecclessiastic title is, Papa Abba, the Abba stands for the devotion of all monastics, from Pentapolis in the West to Constantinople in the East, to his guidance. Abba is the most powerful designation, that for all Monks in the East to volanterily follow his spiritual authority, it should be assumed he was a bearer of Christ.
Historically, this office has held the title of Papa, Father in Coptic, since Papa Heracleus, 13th Alexandrine Patriarch (232-249 AD) was first to associate with the title three centuries before it was assumed by John I, the Roman Bishop (523- 526), who ratified the Alexandrian computation of the date of Easter. Bestowing the title on Rome's Pontiff did not strip it from Alexandria's, and the Roman Catholic Church recognizes this ecclesiastical fact.[1]
★ Catholic Encyclopedia article
1. http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/W4O42BT6T7FQ
He followed Origen as head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria.
He has been attributed as the first Bishop of Alexandria to carry the appellation of '"Pope"'. All the clergy of Alexandria and Lower Egypt honored him with the appellation "Papas", which means "Our Father", as the Senior and Elder Bishop among all bishops, within the Egyptian Province, who are under his jurisdiction. The use of the term "Pope" for the Vatican was not centuries later. Heraclas is commemorated in the Coptic ''Synaxarion'' on the 8th day of Koiak.
Papa has been the specific designation for the Archbishop of Alexandria, Patriarch of Egypt, and the See of Saint Mark, whose ecclessiastic title is, Papa Abba, the Abba stands for the devotion of all monastics, from Pentapolis in the West to Constantinople in the East, to his guidance. Abba is the most powerful designation, that for all Monks in the East to volanterily follow his spiritual authority, it should be assumed he was a bearer of Christ.
Historically, this office has held the title of Papa, Father in Coptic, since Papa Heracleus, 13th Alexandrine Patriarch (232-249 AD) was first to associate with the title three centuries before it was assumed by John I, the Roman Bishop (523- 526), who ratified the Alexandrian computation of the date of Easter. Bestowing the title on Rome's Pontiff did not strip it from Alexandria's, and the Roman Catholic Church recognizes this ecclesiastical fact.[1]
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