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The metropolitan sui iuris Eastern Catholic particular churches of the Eritrean Catholic Church and Ethiopian Catholic Church are not P'ent'ay (Evangelical Protestant) churches but some Orthodox Tewahedo adherents have used the term P'ent'ay as a pejorative by conflating and 'othering' them with P'ent'ay (Evangelical Protestants). [9]
The Global Confessional & Missional Lutheran Forum (Global Forum) is a global gathering of national and regional Lutheran churches. The forum was founded in Dallas, Texas by invitation of the North American Lutheran Church in 2015 to bring together Confessional Lutheran bodies who wish to emphasize missional discipleship as the focal point of ministry in the world.
Thomas Lambie, a missionary of the United Presbyterian Church, begun work in the western part of the country. During the Italian occupation, missionaries were forced to leave, but the Bethel Evangelical Church was founded with native believers. It became an independent church in 1947. After World War II, BEC experienced rapid growth. In 1974 it ...
The largest Protestant group is the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, with about 5 million members. Catholicism has been present in Ethiopia since the nineteenth century, and numbers over 530,000 believers as of the 2007 census. In total, Christians make up about 63% of the total population of the country.
The Ethiopian Full Gospel Believers' Church has its origins in a prayer conference held at the University of Addis Ababa in 1966. [1] The church was officially founded in 1967. [2] In 2015, it had 2,143 churches and 4.5 million members. The head and largest church is Ketana Hulet Local Church, Addis Ababa. [3]
In 1967, the Ethiopian Full Gospel Believers Church (Mulu Wengel) was founded. [2] This church was the first independent Pentecostal church of Ethiopia and is still the largest Pentecostal group in Ethiopia. [2]
Ethiopian-Eritrean Evangelical Church – 16.5 million, Alexandrian Rite [citation needed] Believers Eastern Church – 3.5 million, West Syrian Rite [ citation needed ] Mar Thoma Syrian Church – 1 million, Syro-Antiochene Rite [ 257 ] [ 258 ] (in communion with the Anglican Communion ) [ 259 ]
Evangelical megachurches in Ethiopia (1 P) ... Ethiopian Full Gospel Believers' Church; P. P'ent'ay This page was last edited on 13 March 2024, at 18:40 (UTC) ...