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4 unusual facts about Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church


EOTC

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the official English title translating the Amharic title, ኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተክርስቲያን (or ኢ.ኦ.ተ.ቤ.);

Epistles of Clement

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church includes in their wider Biblical canon an epistle traditionally attributed as written by the apostle Paul to Clement.

James of Manug

Their feast day is celebrated on August 10 in the Coptic Church, or August 11 in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Seven Deacons

Philip evangelized in Samaria, where he converted Simon Magus and an Ethiopian eunuch, traditionally beginning the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.


Abuna Yesehaq

Abuna Yesehaq, born Laike Maryam Mandefro in Adwa, Ethiopia, 1933; died 29 December 2005 Newark, New Jersey, was a leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in the Western hemisphere.

Abune Merkorios

Abuna Merkorios (Patriarch and Catholicos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church) was the fourth Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church elected after the death of Abuna Takla Haymanot in May 1988.

African initiated church

They should not be confused with the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church or Coptic Orthodox Church, which have a much longer and an utterly distinct doctrinal history.

Church of Saint George, Lalibela

Originally named Roha or Warwar, this historical and religious site is currently accepted in the modern name of Lalibela - after King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of Ethiopia - considered to be a saint-like figure by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Egypt–Ethiopia relations

Religion plays a crucial role in bringing the two countries closer as the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was under the administration of the Coptic Orthodox Church until 1959, when it was appointed its own Patriarch by the Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa, Cyril VI.

Ethiopian Catholic Church

These points distinguish it from the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Oriental Orthodox churches comprising most Christians in the two countries.

Pseudepigrapha

Examples of books labeled Old Testament pseudepigrapha from the Protestant point of view are the Ethiopian Book of Enoch, Jubilees (both of which are canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and the Beta Israel sect of Judaism); the Life of Adam and Eve and "Pseudo-Philo".


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Abune Mathias

Abune Mathias eventually settled in Washington, D.C., where he presided over an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church made up of exiles who had fled the Ethiopian revolution, and continued to broadcast messages against the Derg regime on Voice of America.