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AnswerPrior to 306 CE and the reign of Emperor Constantine, there was already a significant Christian community in the city of Alexandria, but elsewhere few followers of Christianity apart from the desert monks and their followers.

When Constantine gave Christianity state patronage, Christianity began to grow rapidly in Egypt. With persecution of pagans throughout most of the fourth century, culminating in the prohibition of public worship of paganism by 391, Egypt had become largely Christianised by the end of the century.

With the arrival of Islam, most Egyptian Christians eventually converted to the new faith.

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