The orthodoxe Ethiopian Église is an Eastern orthodoxe Church autocéphale. It belongs to the whole of the Églises of the three councils (or orthodoxe Eastern) and employs the Rite guèze. The chief of the Church carries the title of Patriarche and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Etchégué of the Head office of Takla Haïmanot and Archevêque of Aksoum , and resides at Addis-Abeba (titular current: Abouna Paul, since the July 5th 1992).

The orthodoxe Ethiopian Church lived a long time in a great insulation and developed a spirituality, a theology, particular liturgical uses, very marked by the model of the Old Testament.

Name

The orthodoxe Ethiopian Church is officially called unified orthodoxe Église of Ethiopia (in Amharique: ya-Ityopiya ortodoks tawahedo Beta krestiyan ) but is also known under other names:

  • Ethiopian orthodoxe Church

  • orthodoxe Church of Ethiopia
  • Church copte of Ethiopia
  • Ethiopian orthodoxe Church Tewahedo

History

  • 1951 - 1959 the Church affirms its autonomy compared to the Church copte;

  • 1965 Sitting Eastern orthodoxe Churches with Addis-Abéba.

Famous patriarchs

  • Abouna Mattéwos (death in 1926)

  • Abouna Pétros: martyr killed by the Italians in 1937. A statue was set up with its memory with Addis-Abeba.
  • Abouna Basileos : first patriarch originating in Ethiopia (1951).

Characteristics

Biblical Canon

The orthodoxe Ethiopian Église has of all the Christian Churches the the biblical Canon broadest, which includes in particular the Livre of the Jubilees and the Livre of Hénoch.

Organization

Out of Ethiopia

Alternative synod in exile

After the fall of the mode of Derg in 1991 and the installation of new authorities, the patriarch Abouna Merkorios/Mercure abdicated. The Church then elected a new patriarch, Abouna Paulos/Paul. The former patriarch Abouna Merkorios settled then abroad (initially with the Kenya then with the the United States) and announced of his exile that its abdication had been made under coercion and that he was always the legitimate patriarch of the Church of Ethiopia. Several bishops followed it in the exile and formed an alternative synod.

In January 2007, thirteen new bishops are ordered by Abuna Merkorios and four other bishops.

This orthodoxe Ethiopian Église in exile is present in North America and Western Europe.

Orthodoxe Ethiopian church of the Western hemisphere

Abba Yesehaq, archbishop of the Western hemisphere since 1979, did not recognize either the new patriarch and broke the communion with him in 1992. It was followed by a certain number of faithful. In answer, the official Synod suspended it and created three new jurisdictions for the communities out of Ethiopia (archdiocese of the United States and the Canada, archdiocese of the the Caribbean and Latin America and archdiocese of Western Europe).

Abba Yesehaq then declared the independence of the Ethiopian orthodoxe archdiocese of the Western hemisphere.

The new jurisdiction counts several parishes and missions in North America, in the Caribbean, like in South Africa.

Abba Yesehaq is deceased the December 30th 2005.

Relations with the other Churches

The Ethiopian Church is in intercommunion with the others Eastern orthodoxe Églises.

It is member of the World Council of Churches since its foundation in 1948.

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • Official site
  • CNEWA - Ethiopian Orthodox Church
  • Ethiopian Mass in English and guèze.
  • History of the Church
  • general Information
  • Ethiopian Church in Jerusalem
  • Archdiocese orth. éthiop. of the Caribbean
  • Parish in Washington D.C., the United States, in Los Angeles

Synod in exile

  • general Information

  • Official site

orthodoxe Ethiopian Church of the Western hemisphere

  • Site of Abba Yesehaq

  • Site of Abba Gebre Tsadik
  • Parish in Garland, Texas, the United States
  • Church orth. éthiop. in South Africa

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