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School of Alexandria flourishes
c. 180 CE · Early Christian
Under teachers like Pantaenus, Clement and Origen, Alexandria becomes a center of Christian scholarship in Greek — while the Egyptian vernacular of ordinary believers steadily rises in church life alongside it.
Why it matters for the language — The bilingual crucible from which Coptic emerges as the church's own voice.