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An Ethiopian Orthodox priest displays the processional crosses. Basilios died in 1970, and was succeeded that year by Tewophilos. With the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was disestablished as the state church. The new Marxist government began nationalizing property (including land) owned by the ...
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.
The Oriental Orthodox communion is composed of six autocephalous national churches: the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria; the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and its constituent autonomous Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church; the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church; the Armenian Apostolic Church comprising the autocephalous Catholicosate of ...
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 ...
The Church of Our Lady, Mary of Zion [a] is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church which is claimed to contain the Ark of the Covenant. The church is located in the town of Axum , Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia , near the grounds of Obelisks of Axum .
Medhane Alem Cathedral (Amharic: መድኃኔዓለም ካቴድራል), whose name means "Saviour of the World", is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo cathedral in Bole Medhanealem, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Built in 1990's, it is the second largest cathedral in the whole of Africa and the largest in Ethiopia. [1]
Inside the church, there is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church painting art in the church's interior wall and decorated with hand painting. [3] Visitors can visit its compound abandoned rock carved church chiseled in the rock 700 years. [4] There is also small museum displaying old manuscripts, crosses, and other church relics. [5]
Postmarks commemorating Ethiopian First Day Cover, Meskel festivities, 17 December 1974. Meskel (Ge'ez: መስቀል, romanized: Mesk’el) is an Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church holiday that commemorates the discovery of the True Cross by the Roman Empress Saint Helena of Constantinople in the fourth century.