 Currently, there are 60,000 Copts in Libya, as they have many roots in North Africa (primarily Egypt).Historically speaking, Christianity spread to the Pentapolis in North Africa from Egypt; Synesius of Cyrene (370-414), bishop of Ptolemais, received his instruction at Alexandria in both the Catechetical School and the Museion, and he entertained a great deal of reverence and affection for Hypatia, the last pagan Neoplatonists, whose classes he had attended.Synesius was raised to the episcopate by Theophilus, patriarch of Alexandria, in 410.