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The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is in communion with the other Oriental Orthodox churches (the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, and the Syriac Orthodox Church). The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church had been administratively ...
Pages in category "Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Of these, the largest and oldest is the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, an Oriental Orthodox church centered in Ethiopia. The Orthodox Tewahedo Church was part of the Coptic Orthodox Church until 1959 when it was granted its own patriarch by the Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa Cyril VI.
The Church then elected a new patriarch, Abuna Paulos. The former Patriarch, Abuna Merkorios, then settled abroad (first in Kenya and then in the United States). He later announced from his exile that his abdication had been made under coercion and that he was still the legitimate patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Ethiopia is one of the oldest Christian states in the world. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church is an Oriental Orthodox Church, which is the largest Christian denomination in Ethiopia. It was part of the Coptic Orthodox Church until 1959, and is the only pre-colonial Orthodox church in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Wukro Chirkos is an Orthodox Tewahedo monolithic church located in northern Ethiopia, on the northern edge of the town of Wukro near the main highway. From the time members of the 1868 British Expedition to Abyssinia reported its existence until the early 20th century, it was the only rock-hewn church known to the outside world.
Ethiopic Church refers to a Christian church whose traditional liturgy is in the Ge'ez language, also known as Ethiopic. There are four such churches: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church; Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church; Ethiopian Catholic Church; Eritrean Catholic Church
Ethiopian members of any of the various autocephalous churches of the Oriental Orthodox Church, including the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Pages in category "Ethiopian Oriental Orthodox Christians" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.