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Led by the bishop of Alexandria, the Coptic Church evolved on its own, and the man who held that office was called a pope. He still is called that, and the Coptic Church today has about 12-15 million adherents.
I'm always forgetting about the Coptic Church. Because:
We in the West have been almost oblivious to any historical developments in Christendom outside of the Latin speaking West.
That was me for a very long time. I'm still working on improving my knowledge of Churches outside of the US and Europe. So I appreciate the refresher.
During one of the Crusades, one Crusader army on its way the Holy Land to do battle with the Muslim hordes, even stopped off on the way to plunder Constantinople.
Unless you're taking a ship through the Mediterranean, your crusaders are probably going through Constantinople. I'm surprised only one army plundered it. Then again, if the first army through does a good job of plundering, there's not going to be much left for later armies.
--Peter
