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Protestant Churches. Bethel International Church [4] * Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus; Holy International Church [5] Kidus Raguel Church [6] [7]
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. [13]
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.
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]
A house for an Ethiopian pastor was built behind the church, and Kes Asfaw Kalbero was called and served for many years, followed by other Ethiopian pastors. During the Derg regime many new members joined the Amharic congregation from churches that were closed, so that the Lideta congregation outgrew ILC. [2]
The Ethiopian church also rejected papal supremacy, purgatory and indulgences, which the Lutherans disagreed with, and thus for Luther, the Ethiopian church was the "true forerunner of Protestantism". [25] Luther believed that the Ethiopian church kept true apostolic practices which the Lutherans would adopt through reading the scriptures. [26]
According to the government's 1994 census (which the CIA World Factbook follows), 61.6% of the Ethiopian population was Christian: 50.6% of the total were Ethiopian Orthodox, 10.1% were various Protestant denominations (such as and the Lutheran Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus), and Roman Catholics constituted 0.9% of the population). [7]
After Protestant Reformation, the small church absorbed Calvinist theology - under the influence of Guillaume Farel- and became the Italian branch of the European Calvinist churches. In 1975, the Waldensian Church (45,000 members circa, plus some 15,000 affiliates in Argentina and Uruguay) joined forces with the Italian Methodist Church (5,000 ...