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Frumentius, a Phoenician Christian, was a slave to the Ethiopian king and there is evidence Judaism was in the land before his arrival (mythically due to King Solomon of Israel). After being shipwrecked and captured at an early age, Frumentius was carried to Aksum, where he was treated well with his companion Edesius .
One of the few Christian churches in sub-Saharan Africa originating before European colonization of the continent, [5] the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church dates back to the Christianization of the Kingdom of Aksum in 330, [6] and has between 36 million and 51 million adherents in Ethiopia.
Socrates of Constantinople stated Ethiopia was one of region preached by Matthew the Apostle where a specific mention of "Ethiopia south of the Caspian Sea". [3] 1st century – according to the New Testament book Acts, 8:26–27, [4] Christianity was entered to Ethiopia by means of Philip the Evangelist via baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch. [5]
Christianity in Africa arrived in Africa in the 1st century AD, and in the 21st century the majority of Africans are Christians. [1] Several African Christians influenced the early development of Christianity and shaped its doctrines, including Tertullian, Perpetua, Felicity, Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Cyprian, Athanasius and Augustine of Hippo.
The forming of Christianity as state religion dates to the time of the Eastern Orthodox missionaries (Saints) Cyril and Methodius during Basil I (r. 867–886), who baptised the Serbs sometime before helping Knez Mutimir in the war against the Saracens in 869, after acknowledging the suzerainty of the Byzantine Empire.
1054 – Byzantine Empire, Kingdom of Georgia, Bulgaria, Serbs, and Rus' are Orthodox Catholics with East-West Schism while Western Europe becomes Roman Catholic; 1124 – Conversion of Pomerania; 1160s – Obotrites; c. 1200 – (Southwestern) Finland; 1227 – Livonia (including mainland Estonia and northern Latvia), Cumania (Transylvania ...
Due to the behaviour of the Portuguese Jesuit Afonso Mendes, whom Pope Urban VIII appointed as Patriarch of Ethiopia in 1622, Emperor Fasilides expelled the Patriarch and the European missionaries under penalty of death, [2] who included Jerónimo Lobo, from the country in 1636; these contacts, which had seemed destined for success under the ...
Christian missionaries in Ethiopia (4 C, 12 P) N. Nine Saints (10 P) Pages in category "History of Christianity in Ethiopia" The following 14 pages are in this ...