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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> <b>500,000</b> (2018 est.)<sup id="cite_ref-Telushkin_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telushkin-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Northern_New_Jersey" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern New Jersey">Northern New Jersey</a> and the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Metropolitan_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="New York City Metropolitan Area">New York City Metropolitan Area</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-Wallace_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wallace-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Immigration_stats_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Immigration_stats-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Immigration_stats_two_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Immigration_stats_two-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Immigrations_stats_three_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Immigrations_stats_three-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as <a href="/wiki/Southern_California" title="Southern California">Southern California</a><sup id="cite_ref-Wallace_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wallace-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American English</a> <br />Mainly older people: <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> (<a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Arabic" title="Egyptian Arabic">Egyptian Arabic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sudanese_Arabic" title="Sudanese Arabic">Sudanese Arabic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Arabic" title="Libyan Arabic">Libyan Arabic</a>) <br />Liturgical: <a href="/wiki/Coptic_language" title="Coptic language">Coptic language</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Primarily <a href="/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church" title="Coptic Orthodox Church">Coptic Orthodoxy</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-Telushkin_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telushkin-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> minority <a href="/wiki/Coptic_Catholic_Church" title="Coptic Catholic Church">Coptic Catholic</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Coptic Americans</b> (<a href="/wiki/Coptic_language" title="Coptic language">Coptic</a>: <span lang="cop">ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲛ̀ⲁⲙⲉⲣⲓⲕⲏ</span>, <small>romanized: </small><span title="Coptic-language romanization"><i lang="cop-Latn">niremenkāmi enamerika</i></span>) are American citizens of <a href="/wiki/Copts" title="Copts">Coptic</a> descent or persons of Coptic descent residing in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. As of 2018, there were some 500,000 Copts living in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-Telushkin_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telushkin-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Immigration_history">Immigration history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coptic_Americans&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Immigration history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:StMarkCopticOrthodoxChurchBellaireTX0.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/StMarkCopticOrthodoxChurchBellaireTX0.JPG/250px-StMarkCopticOrthodoxChurchBellaireTX0.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="203" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/StMarkCopticOrthodoxChurchBellaireTX0.JPG/375px-StMarkCopticOrthodoxChurchBellaireTX0.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/StMarkCopticOrthodoxChurchBellaireTX0.JPG/500px-StMarkCopticOrthodoxChurchBellaireTX0.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1961" data-file-height="1595" /></a><figcaption>St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Bellaire, Texas</figcaption></figure> <p>The immigration of <a href="/wiki/Copts" title="Copts">Copts</a> to the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> started as early as the late 1940s. After 1952, the rate of Coptic immigration from <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> to the United States increased because of persisting persecution and discrimination against Christians in a Muslim majority nation, political turmoils and revolutions. The first Coptic christian ordothox church in the United States is <a href="/wiki/St._Mark_Coptic_Orthodox_Church_(Jersey_City,_New_Jersey)" title="St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church (Jersey City, New Jersey)">St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church</a>, which was established in the late 1960s in <a href="/wiki/Jersey_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Jersey City">Jersey City</a>. </p><p>As of 2013, researchers estimated that there were about 350,000 Coptic Christians who settled in the United States before the <a href="/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution" title="2011 Egyptian revolution">2011 Egyptian revolution</a>, with up to 100,000 additional Copts who settled in the US after the revolution, fleeing instability and violence in Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-Wallace_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wallace-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many came to the US on grants of <a href="/wiki/Asylum_in_the_United_States" title="Asylum in the United States">asylum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wallace_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wallace-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new post-2011 migrants to the United States included both educated middle-class Copts and poorer, more rural Copts.<sup id="cite_ref-Wallace_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wallace-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2018, it was estimated that a half-million Copts lived in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-Telushkin_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telushkin-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The historic centers of Coptic American life have been in <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Southern_California" title="Southern California">Southern California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wallace_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wallace-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1990s, there were more than 50 Coptic congregations in the United States. 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style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Afghan_Americans" title="List of Afghan Americans">Afghan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_African_Americans" title="Lists of African Americans">African Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_African-American_Jews" title="List of African-American Jews">African-American Jews</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Albanian_Americans" title="List of Albanian Americans">Albanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algerian_Americans" title="Algerian Americans">Algerian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Amish_and_their_descendants" title="List of Amish and their descendants">Amish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Angolan_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Angolan Americans">Angolan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Antiguan_and_Barbudan_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Antiguan and Barbudan Americans">Antiguan and Barbudan</a></li> <li><a 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Americans">Berber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Bermudian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Bermudian Americans">Bermudian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bissau-Guinean_Americans" title="Bissau-Guinean Americans">Bissau-Guinean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Bolivian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Bolivian Americans">Bolivian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Bosnian_Americans" title="List of Bosnian Americans">Bosnian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Brazilian_Americans" title="List of Brazilian Americans">Brazilian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Americans" title="British Americans">British</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Bulgarian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Bulgarian Americans">Bulgarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Burmese_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Burmese Americans">Burmese</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus" title="Ethnic groups in the Caucasus">Caucasian peoples</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chechen_Americans" title="Chechen Americans">Chechen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Lezgin_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Lezgin Americans">Lezgin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circassian_Americans" title="Circassian Americans">Circassian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Georgian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Georgian Americans">Georgian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Cajuns" title="List of Cajuns">Cajun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Californios" title="Californios">Californios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Cambodian_Americans" title="List of Cambodian Americans">Cambodian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Cameroonian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Cameroonian Americans">Cameroonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Canadian_Americans" title="List of Canadian Americans">Canadian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canarian_Americans" title="Canarian Americans">Canarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Verdean_Americans" title="Cape Verdean Americans">Cape Verdean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catalan_Americans" title="Catalan Americans">Catalan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Indian_Americans" title="West Indian Americans">Caribbean</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Garifuna_Americans" title="Garifuna Americans">Garifuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indo-Caribbean_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Indo-Caribbean Americans">Indo-Caribbean</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Asians_in_the_United_States" title="Central Asians in the United States">Central Asian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Afghan_Americans" title="List of Afghan Americans">Afghan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Kazakh_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kazakh Americans">Kazakh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Tajikistani_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Tajikistani Americans">Tajik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Uzbek_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Uzbek Americans">Uzbek</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Chilean_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Chilean Americans">Chilean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Chinese_Americans" title="List of Chinese Americans">Chinese</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Fuzhounese_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Fuzhounese Americans">Fuzhou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Hakka_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Hakka Americans">Hakka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoklo_Americans" title="Hoklo Americans">Hoklo</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Colombian_Americans" title="List of Colombian Americans">Colombian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Congolese_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Congolese Americans">Congolese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Coptic_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Coptic Americans">Coptic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Cossack_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Cossack Americans">Cossack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Costa_Rican_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Costa Rican Americans">Costa Rican</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Croatian_Americans" title="List of Croatian Americans">Croatian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Cuban_Americans" title="List of Cuban Americans">Cuban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Cypriot_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Cypriot Americans">Cypriot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Czech_Americans" title="List of Czech Americans">Czech</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Danish_Americans" title="List of Danish Americans">Danish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominican_Americans_(Dominica)#Notable_people" title="Dominican Americans (Dominica)">Dominican Americans (Dominica)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominican_Americans#Notable_people" title="Dominican Americans">Dominican Americans (Dominican Republic)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Dutch_Americans" title="List of Dutch Americans">Dutch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_West_Indian_Americans" title="Dutch West Indian Americans">Dutch West Indian</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ecuadorian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Ecuadorian Americans">Ecuadorian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_Americans" title="List of Egyptian Americans">Egyptian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Americans_of_English_descent" title="List of Americans of English descent">English</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equatoguinean_Americans" title="Equatoguinean Americans">Equatoguinean</a></li> <li><a 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Americans">French Polynesian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frisian_Americans" title="Frisian Americans">Frisian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fula_Americans" title="Fula Americans">Fula</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gabonese_Americans" title="Gabonese Americans">Gabonese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galician_Americans" title="Galician Americans">Galician</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Gambian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Gambian Americans">Gambian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_German_Americans" title="List of German Americans">German</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ghanaian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Ghanaian Americans">Ghanaian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Greek_Americans" title="List of Greek Americans">Greek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grenadian_Americans" title="Grenadian Americans">Grenadian</a></li> <li><a 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of Indo-Caribbean Americans">Indo-Caribbean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fijian_Indian_diaspora" class="mw-redirect" title="Fijian Indian diaspora">Indo-Fijian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punjabi_Americans" title="Punjabi Americans">Punjabi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Americans" title="Tamil Americans">Tamil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telugu_Americans" title="Telugu Americans">Telugu</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indonesian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Indonesian Americans">Indonesian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Iranian_Americans" title="List of Iranian Americans">Iranian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Iraqi_Americans" title="List of Iraqi Americans">Iraqi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_Americans" title="List of Irish Americans">Irish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Israeli_Americans" title="List of Israeli Americans">Israeli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Italian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of 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title="List of Karen Americans">Karen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kashubian_Americans" title="Kashubian Americans">Kashubian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Kazakh_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kazakh Americans">Kazakh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Kenyan_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kenyan Americans">Kenyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kittian_and_Nevisian_Americans" title="Kittian and Nevisian Americans">Kittian and Nevisian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Korean_Americans" title="List of Korean Americans">Korean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Kurdish_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kurdish Americans">Kurdish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Kuwaiti_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kuwaiti Americans">Kuwaiti</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Laotian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Laotian Americans">Laotian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="List of Hispanic and Latino Americans">Latino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latvian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Latvian Americans">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Lebanese_Americans" title="List of Lebanese Americans">Lebanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberian_Americans" title="Liberian Americans">Liberian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_Americans" title="Libyan Americans">Libyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liechtensteiner_Americans" title="Liechtensteiner Americans">Liechtensteiner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Lithuanian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Lithuanian Americans">Lithuanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Louisiana_Creoles" title="List of Louisiana Creoles">Louisiana Creole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Luxembourg_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Luxembourg Americans">Luxembourg</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Macedonian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Macedonian Americans">Macedonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Malawian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Malawian Americans">Malawian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maldivian_Americans" title="Maldivian Americans">Maldivian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Malian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Malian Americans">Malian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maltese_Americans#Notable_people" title="Maltese Americans">Maltese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysian_Americans" title="Malaysian Americans">Malaysian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manx_Americans" title="Manx Americans">Manx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_M%C4%81ori_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Māori Americans">Māori</a></li> <li><a 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Americans">Rusyn</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Lucian_Americans" title="Saint Lucian Americans">Saint Lucian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Salvadoran_Americans" title="List of Salvadoran Americans">Salvadoran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sami_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Sami Americans">Sami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sammarinese_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Sammarinese Americans">Sammarinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samoan_Americans" title="Samoan Americans">Samoan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Americans" title="Saudi Americans">Saudi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Scotch-Irish_Americans" title="List of Scotch-Irish Americans">Scotch-Irish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Scottish_Americans" title="List of Scottish Americans">Scottish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Senegalese_Americans" 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African</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Asian_Americans" title="South Asian Americans">South Asian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Bangladeshi_Americans" title="List of Bangladeshi Americans">Bangladeshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhutanese_Americans#Notable_people" title="Bhutanese Americans">Bhutanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_Americans" title="List of Indian Americans">Indian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indo-Caribbean_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Indo-Caribbean Americans">Indo-Caribbean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fijian_Indian_diaspora" class="mw-redirect" title="Fijian Indian diaspora">Indo-Fijian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepalese_Americans#Notable_people" title="Nepalese Americans">Nepalese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Pakistani_Americans" title="List of Pakistani Americans">Pakistani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sri_Lankan_Americans" title="List of Sri Lankan Americans">Sri Lankan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Venezuelan_Americans" title="List of Venezuelan Americans">Venezuelan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Vietnamese_Americans" title="List of Vietnamese Americans">Vietnamese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vincentian_Americans" title="Vincentian Americans">Vincentian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stateside_Virgin_Islands_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Stateside Virgin Islands Americans">Virgin Islander</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Welsh_Americans" title="List of Welsh Americans">Welsh</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Americans" title="Yemeni Americans">Yemeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_Americans" title="Yoruba Americans">Yoruba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Americans" title="Yugoslav Americans">Yugoslav</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zimbabwean_Americans" title="Zimbabwean Americans">Zimbabwean</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below hlist"> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:American_people" title="Category:American people">Category</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td 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descendants. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nader_Anise" title="Nader Anise">Nader Anise</a>, founder of Coptic American Chamber of Commerce (Coptic Chamber) and attorney</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Attia" title="Peter Attia">Peter Attia</a>, physician known for his work in longevity medicine</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halim_El-Dabh" title="Halim El-Dabh">Halim El-Dabh</a>, composer and <a href="/wiki/Ethnomusicology" title="Ethnomusicology">ethnomusicologist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fadi_Chehade" class="mw-redirect" title="Fadi Chehade">Fadi Chehade</a>, founder of <a href="/wiki/RosettaNet" title="RosettaNet">RosettaNet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamal_Helal" title="Gamal Helal">Gamal Helal</a>, retired interpreter and diplomat</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Helmy" title="George Helmy">George Helmy</a>, Senator, New Jersey</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Ibrahim" title="Raymond Ibrahim">Raymond Ibrahim</a>, author and commentator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magdi_Khalil" title="Magdi Khalil">Magdi Khalil</a>, commentator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marty_Makary" title="Marty Makary">Marty Makary</a>, scientist and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rami_Malek" title="Rami Malek">Rami Malek</a>, actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reda_Mankbadi" class="mw-redirect" title="Reda Mankbadi">Reda Mankbadi</a>, college dean and NASA scientist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emil_Michael" title="Emil Michael">Emil Michael</a>, businessman, former vice president of <a href="/wiki/Uber" title="Uber">Uber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Mina" title="Michael Mina">Michael Mina</a>, award-winning chef and restaurateur</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dina_Powell" title="Dina Powell">Dina Powell</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Deputy_National_Security_Advisor" title="Deputy National Security Advisor">Deputy National Security Advisor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morris_Sadek" title="Morris Sadek">Morris Sadek</a>, attorney and activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fayez_Sarofim" title="Fayez Sarofim">Fayez Sarofim</a>, billionaire and heir to the Sarofim family fortune</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Shenoda" title="Matthew Shenoda">Matthew Shenoda</a>, poet, writer, and professor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bassem_Youssef_(FBI_agent)" title="Bassem Youssef (FBI agent)">Bassem Youssef (FBI agent)</a>, Unit Chief in the FBI <a href="/wiki/Counterterrorism" title="Counterterrorism">Counterterrorism</a> Division</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabih_Youssef" title="Nabih Youssef">Nabih Youssef</a>, structural engineer</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coptic_Americans&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coptic_diaspora" title="Coptic diaspora">Coptic diaspora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copts" title="Copts">Copts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church_in_the_United_States" title="Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States">Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Coptic_Orthodox_churches_in_the_United_States" title="List of Coptic Orthodox churches in the United States">List of Coptic Orthodox churches in the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/St._Mark_Coptic_Orthodox_Church_(Jersey_City,_New_Jersey)" title="St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church (Jersey City, New Jersey)">St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church (Jersey City, New Jersey)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Abraam_Coptic_Orthodox_Church_(Woodbury,_New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church (Woodbury, New York)">St. Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church (Woodbury, New York)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coptic_Canadians" title="Coptic Canadians">Coptic Canadians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coptic_Australians" title="Coptic Australians">Coptic Australians</a></li> <li><a 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href="#cite_ref-Telushkin_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Telushkin_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Telushkin_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Shira Telushkin, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/coptic-church/555515/">The Americanization of an Ancient Faith</a>, <i>The Atlantic</i> (March 28, 2018).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Wallace-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Wallace_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wallace_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wallace_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wallace_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wallace_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wallace_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style 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NPR.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=All+Things+Considered&rft.atitle=Amid+Instability+In+Egypt%2C+Coptic+Christians+Flee+To+U.S.&rft.date=2013-01-04&rft.aulast=Wallace&rft.aufirst=Bruce&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2013%2F01%2F04%2F168609672%2Famid-instability-in-egypt-coptic-christians-flee-to-u-s&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACoptic+Americans" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Immigration_stats-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Immigration_stats_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dhs.gov/yearbook-immigration-statistics-2012-lega-permanent-residents">"Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2012 Supplemental Table 2"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2013-04-01</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Yearbook+of+Immigration+Statistics%3A+2012+Supplemental+Table+2&rft.pub=United+States+Department+of+Homeland+Security&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dhs.gov%2Fyearbook-immigration-statistics-2012-lega-permanent-residents&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACoptic+Americans" class="Z3988"></span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged March 2020">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Immigration_stats_two-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Immigration_stats_two_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dhs.gov/files/statistics/publications/LPR11.shtm">"Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2011 Supplemental Table 2"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2013-04-01</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Yearbook+of+Immigration+Statistics%3A+2010+Supplemental+Table+2&rft.pub=United+States+Department+of+Homeland+Security&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dhs.gov%2Ffiles%2Fstatistics%2Fpublications%2FLPR10.shtm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACoptic+Americans" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lily Kuo, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/film-protests-coptic/coptic-christians-live-quietly-in-new-jersey-town-idUSL1E8KE1H220120914">Coptic Christians live quietly in New Jersey town</a>, Reuters (September 14, 2019).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Estefania 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