About US
The European Academy for Coptic Heritage (TEACH), is a registered charity trust in the United Kingdom since 2019.
TEACH objective is to deliver courses, studies and literature on various components of the Coptic culture and heritage as well as other denominational traditions contained within an online academic presentation to Europe and universally.
The subjects are presented mainly in English, Arabic, and French languages, and some expectation Italian, German and Dutch.
Thus, irrespective of language and culture, interested individuals would be motivated to visit TEACH website should they either wish to read or study.
Academic board
- Bishop Arsani (The Netherlands)
- Bishop Tomas (Egypt)
- Bishop Yousef (USA)
- Al Khoury Doctor Yousif AlBanna(UK)
- Prof Shereen Azer (USA)
- Dr Victor Fouad (France)
- Prof Gawdat Gabra (USA)
- Eng Jean-Marc Kelada (France)
- Prof Magdalena Kuhn (Belgium)
- Fr Joseph Paliouras (UK)
- Fr Antoine Tahan (Lebanon)
- Prof Michael Henein (UK)
- Mrs Barbara Soliman (Egypt)
Our Objectives
To advance education for the public benefit in Coptic history, heritage, language and music by:
- - Documenting Coptic religious, social, and political history to the highest academic standards.
- - Presenting the Coptic Heritage in European and other countries.
- - Transcribing Coptic music from the oral tradition into Western notation, preserving the earliest musical forms where possible.
- - Teaching simplified methods of reading and learning Coptic Music using Western notations.
- - Investigating the origins of Coptic music where these can be determined.
- - Establishing the spiritual understanding and practice of Coptic hymnology.
- - Encouraging original research in various Coptic subjects and publish the scientific results in peer reviewed International journals and conferences.
- - Portraying the scientific, theological and spiritual power in Coptic iconography, investigating its origins where possible and comparing it with other denominational art.
- - Documenting all other aspects of Coptic heritage.
- - Making the information available to all, either free or at reasonable cost, and to publicise its existence in various European languages
- - Promoting the translation of Coptic theological, musical, spiritual and historical heritage into different European languages. and
- - Promoting ecumenical activities, to foster unity and greater understanding of each other’s heritage