Coptic Reader - Coptic liturgical text & services

Coptic Reader is a mobile app designed to provide the liturgical texts, rites, psalms, hymns, melodies, services, and sacraments associated with the Coptic Orthodox Church. Below is a comprehensive list of the content that is available. This application does more than merely display text; it dynamically generates each document or service based on the rites relevant to the current date or a chosen day/feast. Each document is constructed in real-time, incorporating all necessary hymns, rites, and instructions, eliminating any uncertainty regarding the order of church services.

The app can produce documents in English, Arabic, and Coptic, supporting both English and Arabic as its interface languages. It offers extensive customization options, enabling users to display or hide various liturgical roles (such as Priest, Deacon, and Congregation), inaudible prayers, rubrics/comments, and language preferences.

Users can select from various graphical themes and adjust the font size of the text within the documents. Additionally, there is a presentation mode available for projecting content during church services, enhancing the experience. The application also allows for the selection of specific saints or archangels to be included in doxologies, hymns, responses, and other prayers related to the church's intercessors.

Content List:

- Complete Bible including Coptic New Testament and Deuterocanonical books

- Book of Hours (Agpeya)

- Holy Psalmody including Midnight Praises, Vesper Praises, Morning Praises (Standard, Koiahk, Nativity, Theophany, Great Fast, Pentecostal, including all festal psalies)

- Antiphonary (Difnar)

- Divine Liturgies with integrated Service of the Deacons (St. Basil, St. Gregory, and St. Cyril, as well as Vespers and Matins service)

- Katameros (Sundays, Weekdays, Great Fast, Pentecostal, and feasts)

- Synaxarion

- Distribution Melodies

- Unction of the Sick

- Baptism Prayers

- Crowning and Engagement Prayers

- Pascha Prayers

- Prostration Prayers

- Liturgy of the Waters (Lakkan)

- Veneration

- Funerals (Men, Women, Boys, Girls, Monks, Memorials, and Prayer at the Tomb)

- Consecrations (Church, Vessels, Censers, Icons, Baptistery, Ordinations, Reception of a New Priest, and Home Blessing)

About the Diocese

His Holiness Pope Shenouda III is the 116 Successor of St. Mark the Evangelist. His Holiness' era is marked by a remarkable growth in the number of Coptic churches abroad. To address the needs of these churches, His Holiness felt the urgency to establish dioceses abroad. Thus the first Coptic Orthodox Diocese to be established in the United States is the Diocese of the Southern United States in 1993. H.H. Pope Shenouda III appointed His Grace Bishop Youssef to oversee this Diocese.

The Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States is composed of the following states:

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

Florida

Georgia

Louisiana

Mississippi

New Mexico

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Texas

As the Diocese has grown throughout the years by the grace of God, the states are grouped into 3 regions:

Western Region, which consists of the following 4 states:

Arizona

New Mexico

Oklahoma

Texas

Central Region, which consists of the following 6 states:

Alabama

Arkansas

Georgia

Louisiana

Mississippi

Tennessee

Florida Region, which consists of the following state:

Florida

There are currently 96 priests serving the 71 churches and 36 Coptic communities located in the Diocese.