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2. Timkat - Wikipedia

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   Timkat (Ge'ez: ጥምቀት T’imk’et) is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church celebration of Epiphany. It is celebrated on 19 January (or 20 in a leap year), corresponding to the 11th day of Terr in the Ge'ez calendar. Timkat celebrates the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan.

3. Tabot - Wikipedia

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   An Ethiopian priest carries a tabot during a Timkat ceremony. Tabot ( Ge'ez : ታቦት , romanized: tābōt , sometimes spelled tabout ) is a replica of the Ark of the Covenant , and represents the presence of God , in Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox Churches.

4. Meskel Square - Wikipedia

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   The square is known of spectacular Ethiopian Orthodox festival, most prominently Meskel ("a festival of the true cross") celebrated every September and Timkat (Ethiopian Epiphany). Before celebration, 17 Arks (known as Tabot) must be arrived to the square.

5. Holy water in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

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   Holy water is often used during public holidays such as Timkat , when Christians gather around a small water pool prepared by priests on Ketera, the eve of Timkat. [15] [16] After priests and deacons pray over and bless the water, it is sprayed onto the people "for the purification of their souls from sins committed." Most of these events take ...

6. Epiphany (holiday) - Wikipedia

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   Orthodox priests dancing during the celebration of Timkat. In the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Church, the feast is known as Timkat and is celebrated on the day that the Gregorian calendar calls January 19, but on January 20 in years when New Year in the Ethiopian calendar falls on Gregorian September 12 (i.e. when the ...

7. Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon - Wikipedia

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   The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions: the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.