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The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is in communion with the other Oriental Orthodox churches (the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, and the Syriac Orthodox Church). The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church had been administratively ...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church dates back to the introduction of Christianity to the country in 330, [22] and in 2022 it has between 36 million and 49.8 million adherents in Ethiopia. [ 23 ] P'ent'ay (Ethiopian-Eritrean Evangelicalism)
Abuna Yesehaq (Ge'ez: አቡነ ይስሐቕ; born Laike Maryam Mandefro; 1933 - 29 December 2005), was a leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in the Western hemisphere. Life Laike was born to an Orthodox Christian family in Adwa, Tigray, attended Christian school in the monastery of Abune Gerima where he became a monk, and joined ...
The flag is understood to be a link between the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the peoples, and the nation that was united. The processional cross carried by the lion was the former flag or symbol of Ethiopia, and has likewise been in use since at least the early 17th century. [9]
Holy Trinity Cathedral, also known in Amharic as Kidist Selassie, is the highest ranking Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.It was built to commemorate the Ethiopian victory over Italian occupation and is an important place of worship in Ethiopia, alongside other cathedrals such as the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum.
On 13 July 1948, the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian churches reached an agreement that led to the elevation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church to the rank of an Autonomous Church; allowing the Archbishop of All Ethiopia to consecrate on his own bishops and metropolitans for the Ethiopian Church and to form a local Holy Synod. The ...
Ethiopic Church refers to a Christian church whose traditional liturgy is in the Ge'ez language, also known as Ethiopic. There are four such churches: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church; Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church; Ethiopian Catholic Church; Eritrean Catholic Church
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, autocephalous since 1959. The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, autocephalous since 1993. The Tigrayan Orthodox Tewahedo Church, self-declared autocephalous since 2021. Tewahedo (Ge'ez: ተዋሕዶ täwaḥədo) is a Geʽez word meaning 'being made one' or