Funeral Liturgy for Coptic Pope Shenouda III

You might be surprised just how much Greek is in the service.

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  1. Fr. AndrewMarch 21, 2012 at 2:21 PM

    I haven't watched the whole thing (so I could be wrong), but I suspect that what you're identifying as Greek is really just liturgical Coptic, which includes a significant amount of Greek (indeed, even the Coptic alphabet is almost entirely based on the Greek alphabet).

    I remember the first time I picked up a Coptic liturgy book at one of their churches how surprised I was at how much I could make out, based on my (meager) knowledge of Greek.

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  2. Byzantine, TXMarch 21, 2012 at 2:25 PM

    There's a lot of kyrie eleison, Agios o Theos, etc. in there.

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  3. Fr. AndrewMarch 21, 2012 at 2:29 PM

    Yep -- liturgical Coptic (e.g., see p. 55).

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  4. VSOMarch 21, 2012 at 6:14 PM

    It's actually Coptic, I've asked the same questions.

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