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Days per month (using the Ethiopian calendar) Dedicated saint(s) [4] [unreliable source?] 1st Lideta (Birth of the Holy Virgin Mary) and Elias 2nd Thaddius: 3rd Be'eta (Presentation of the Holy Virgin to the Temple of Jerusalem) 4th Yohannes Wolde Negedquad (John Son of Thunder) 5th Petros and Paulos (Peter and Paul) and Gebre Menfes Kiddus: 6th
The Church has its origins in an American mission of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference in the 1940s. [1] The first church was founded in 1951 in Addis Ababa.Meserete Kristos Church (meaning "Christ is the foundation Church", based on I Cor. 3:11) was officially founded in 1959.
The Ethiopian calendar years 1992 and 1996, however, began on the Gregorian dates of 12 September in 1999 and 2003 respectively. [citation needed] This date correspondence applies for Gregorian years 1900 to 2099. The Ethiopian calendar leap year is every four without exception, while Gregorian centurial years are only leap years when exactly ...
Islamic calendar date English name Amharic name Notes Moveable: Ramadan: Ramadaan: Ninth month, devoted to fasting 12 Rabi' al-awwal (Sunni) 17 Rabi' al-awwal (Shia) Mawlid: Mawliid: Birth of the Prophet 1 Shawwal: Eid al-Fitr: Iid al-Fitrii: Breaking of the Fast 10 Dhu al-Hijjah: Eid al-Adha: Iid al-Adhaa: Feast of the Sacrifice
P'ent'ay (from Ge'ez: ጴንጤ P̣enṭe) is an originally Amharic–Tigrinya language term for Pentecostal Christians.Today, the term refers to all Evangelical Protestant denominations and organisations in Ethiopian and Eritrean societies.
Ethiopian Christmas (Amharic: ገና [a]; Oromo: Ayaana; Tigrinya: ልደት [b]) is a holiday celebrated by the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox churches, as well as Protestant and Catholic denominations in Ethiopia, on 7 January (Tahsas 29 in the Ethiopian calendar).
Ethiopian (Ethio-Eritrean, Eastern) Easter, or Fasika, however, takes place in all the Christian Churches throughout the country, whether it be Orthodox, Catholic, or Protestant, and follows the eastern method of calculating Easter (see Computus for details), thus tending to fall after Easter in the Western calendar (some years both fall on the ...
The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY; also called Mekane Yesus Church) is a Lutheran denomination in Ethiopia. It is the largest member church of the Lutheran World Federation . It is a Lutheran denomination with some Pentecostal [ 1 ] influence and one Presbyterian -leaning synod, with a large Pietistic following.