[Capt. Tom]

The Copts have been around as long as the Catholics.

They are not a Protestant denomination from the 1500 s.

So they were in Egypt and other places 600 years before Muhammed started Islam in the early 1500s._Tom

[Campion]

The Copts split from the rest of the church at the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451.

[Capt. Tom]

So they were in Egypt and other places 600 years before Muhammed started Islam in the early 1500s.

Correction - Muhammed started Islam in the early 600s not in the early 1500s. -Tom