The Center for Early African Christianity

Three Hebrew Boys in the Fiery Furnace

Marble, Unknown Provenance

African Provinces
Egypt

100-199, C.E.
200-299, C.E.
300-399, C.E.
400-499, C.E.
500-599, C.E.
600-699, C.E.
700-799, C.E.
800-899, C.E.
900-999, C.E.

Ethiopia
Nubia

900’s

Coptic Synaxarial system orders calendar of Egyptian saints.

900’s

Sawirus (Severus) Ibn al-Muqaffa, bishop of al-Ashmuayn (Ushmanain), writes twenty-six books of history and theology in Arabic, especially, History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria.

910–920

Gabriel I, patriarch of Alexandria.

912

Great Church of Alexandria burned.

920–932

Cosmas III, patriarch of Alexandria.

932–952

Macarius I, patriarch of Alexandria.

935–960

Ikhshidid caliphs rule.

956–974

Menas II, patriarch of Alexandria.

975–978

Abraham, patriarch of Alexandria.

996–1021

Persecution of Coptic Church of Egypt continues under Caliph el-Hakim.

1000

Ps.-Daniel, Coptic Daniel, XIV Vision, Apocalypse on Daniel 7.

1000

First millennium C.E. ends under Fatimid rule of al-Hakim; Philotheus, patriarch of Alexandria
(979-1003.)