43- Priests

 

St-Takla.org Image: Reverend Coptic priests of Saint Takla Haymanot Coptic Orthodox Church, Alexandria, Egypt. Right to left: Fr. Takla William, Fr. Kirillos Kolta, Fr. Angelos Fathy, Fr. Karas Ibrahim and Fr. Philemon Soubhy - First Holy Liturgy at Saint TaklaHaimanout Coptic Orthodox Church, Alexandria, Egypt, after the 2007 reconstruction, 30 March 2007 - Photograph by Michael Ghaly for St-Takla.org. صورة في موقع الأنبا تكلا: الآباء الكهنة بكنيسة الأنبا تكلا هيمانوت القبطية الأرثوذكسية، الإسكندرية، مصر. من اليمين إلى اليسار: أبونا القس تكلا وليم، أبونا القمص كيرلس قلته، أبونا القس أنجيلوس فتحي، أبونا القس كاراس إبراهيم، أبونا القس فليمون صبحي - صور القداس الأول بعد ترميم كنيسة الأنبا تكلاهيمانوت، الإبراهيمية، الإسكندرية، 30 مارس 2007 - تصوير مايكل غالي لـ: موقع الأنبا تكلا هيمانوت.

[1] Clergy of All Grades Are Called Priests

For example, in the military, all are soldiers , but differ in rank from General to the Private.

[2] The Lord Jesus, The Chief Priest Is Referred To As Priest

(Heb 7:21) (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: "The LORD has sworn And will not relent, 'You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek'"),

(Psa 110:4) The LORD has sworn And will not relent, "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek."

He is also called a High Priest

(Heb 7:26) For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens;

(Heb 8:1) Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,