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Ethiopian Orthodox Church

Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (en)
Headquarters of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Addis Ababa

Local Name	(am)
Founder (s)	Saint Frumence
Autocephaly / Talk	1951
Current primate	Abouna Pawlos
Headquarters	Addis Ababa
Primary territory	Ethiopia
Territorial Expansion	Ethiopian Diaspora
Rite	Ge'ez
Language (s) liturgical (s)	Ge'ez
Calendar	Ethiopian
Estimated population	45 000 000
Website	ethiopianorthodox.org / French / indexfrenchdeutsch.html
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ( Amharic : ), Sometimes called the Ethiopian Coptic Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church. It belongs to all churches of the three councils (or Eastern Orthodox) and uses the Ge'ez rite. The head of the Church carries the title of Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia , Itchgu Headquarters Takla Haymanot and Archbishop of Axum, and lives in Addis Ababa (incumbent: Abouna Pawlos since 5 July 1992 ).

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has long lived in great isolation and has developed spirituality, theology, liturgical uses special, very marked by the model of the Old Testament.

Summary

1 Name
2 History
- 2.1 Patriarchs famous
- 2.2 Biblical Canon
3 Organization
4 Alternative Synod in Exile
5 Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the Western Hemisphere
6 Relations with other Churches
7 See also

/ / Name

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church is officially called unified Orthodox Church of Ethiopia ( Ge'ez : in Amharic : ya-Ityopiya ortodoks tawahedo krestiyan Beta) but is also known by other names:

Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo
Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Coptic Church of Ethiopia

History

Main article: History of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

The church in Ethiopia is derived from the churches of the East Theological miaphysite , a group of churches refusing religious principles set by the majority of Christianity in the Council of Chalcedon. These churches are the Coptic Orthodox Church , Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Church , the Syriac Orthodox Church , the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (India), the Malankara Orthodox Church , the Malabar Independent Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church. At these churches can be added or sub-dissident groups from a particular denomination.

The church in Ethiopia claims to have been founded by Philip in the ^first century , but it only becomes official religion of the kingdom of Aksum that ^fourth century. From the fourth century until 1959, the church leader of Ethiopia has always been an Egyptian monk named Archbishop (Abuna) by the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria. The term "Coptic Church of Ethiopia" was so commonly used, but much less so since 1959.

In 1948, an approval from the Coptic churches of Egypt and Ethiopia and has established a system of autocephalous , bishops Ethiopian obtaining the right to elect their own patriarch for the future replacement of the Archbishop in office. In 1959, the first Ethiopian patriarch, Abuna Baslios was nominated, and won a final validation of the Patriarch of Alexandria , Cyril VI.

1965 Focus on the Oriental Orthodox Churches in Addis Ababa
April 2008 visit to Addis Ababa from Coptic Patriarch Shenouda III

Patriarchs famous

Abouna Mattewos (d. 1926)
Abouna Petros : martyr killed by the Italians in 1936. A statue was erected to his memory in Addis Ababa.
Abouna Basileos: first patriarch from Ethiopia (1951).

Biblical Canon

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has all the Christian churches the biblical canon as wide, which includes the Ascension of Isaiah, the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Enoch.

Organization

Out of Ethiopia

Diocese of Khartoum and Nubia ( Sudan )
Diocese of Djibouti and eastern Africa
Archdiocese of Jerusalem and the Holy Land
Archdiocese of Washington
Archdiocese of New York
Archdiocese of Berkeley ( California )
Diocese of Canada ( London , Ontario )
Archdiocese of the Caribbean and Latin America
Archdiocese of Western Europe

Alternative Synod in Exile

After the fall of the Derg regime in 1991 and the installation of new authorities, the Patriarch Abouna Merkorios / Mercury abdicated. The church then elected a new Patriarch Abouna Paulos / Paul. The former Patriarch Abouna Merkorios then moved abroad (first in Kenya and then to the U.S. ) and announced from exile that his abdication had been made under duress and that he was still legitimate Patriarch Church of Ethiopia. Several bishops followed him into exile and formed an alternative synod.

In January 2007, thirteen new bishops were ordained by Abouna Merkorios and four other bishops.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church in exile is present in North America and Western Europe.