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- General
- البابا بطرس الرابع [Pope Peter IV] (in Arabic). Official website of St. Takla Haymanot's Church . Retrieved 2011-02-13.
- Specific
- 1 2 "Fathers of Coptic Church in Arabic". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
- ↑ Copticchurch.org Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Andreas Juckel (2011), "The Enaton", in Sebastian P. Brock; Aaron M. Butts; George A. Kiraz; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.), Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition, Gorgias Press, retrieved 23 October 2019.
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