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The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox churches. It was formerly a part of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, its autocephaly being reluctantly recognized by the Ethiopian Patriarchate after Eritrea gained its independence in the 1993. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church had been granted autocephaly by the Coptic pope in 1950, but had no say in the autocephaly of its integral Eritrean diocese due to the appeal of the Eritrean government to the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate for Eritrean Orthodox autocephaly. Tensions were - and in some cases remain - high between the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church on the one side and the Coptic Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Churches on the other. Nonetheless, the three Churches remain in full communion with one another and with the other Churches of the Oriental Orthodox communion. The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the churches of Eastern Christian traditions that keep the faith of only the first three ecumenical councils — the First Council of Nicaea, the First Council of Constantinople and the Council of Ephesus — and rejected the dogmatic definitions of the Council of Chalcedon. ...
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In hierarchical Christian churches, especially Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, autocephaly is the status of a hierarchical church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Jesus Christ in a Coptic icon. ...
1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Full communion is completeness of that relationship between Christian individuals and groups which is known as communion. ...
HG Bishop Athnateous is Bishop for Eritreans in Europe , and HG Bishop Shenouda is Bishop for Eritreans in the USA. (Bishop names correct as of August 2005.)
Recently in August 2005, news came that the Patriarch of Orthodox Tewahdo Church of Eritrea, H.H. Abune Antonios, has been forced out of his post, but the truth is H.H. Abune Antonios, has been assigned a different roll while maintaining the patriarch ship. Abune Antonios was elected on 5 March 2004 and enthroned as the third Patriarch of Orthodox Tewahedo Church of Eritrea, on 25 April 2004. It is to be remembered Pope Shenouda III presided at the consecration and enthronement in Asmara, together with the Holy Synod of the Eritrean Orthodox Church and a Coptic Orthodox Delegation that accompanied him. HH Pope Shenouda III, 117th Pope of Alexandria and of the Apostolic See of St Mark His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, (August 3, 1923 – ), born Nazeer Gayed, is the 117th Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of the Holy See of Saint Mark of the Coptic Orthodox Church. ...
The first Patriarch of Eritrea was the very elderly Abune Phillipos who died in 2004 and was succeeded by Abune Yacob. Both the first two Patriarchs of Eritrea were originally Archbishops of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and in fact Abune Yacob and been Patriarchal locum tenens (acting patriarch) during the period between the abdication of Patriarch Abune Merkorios and the election of Patriarch Abune Paulos of Ethiopia. The reign of Abune Yacob as Patriarch of Eritrea was very brief, and he was succeeded by Abune Antonios, the first Patriarch of Eritrea who was not previously a bishop in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Ablune Paulos is Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church from 1992 to the present. ...
External links
- Patriarch of Orthodox Tewahdo Church of Eritrea forced out of his post
- http://www.britishorthodox.org/110g.php (Please scroll down the page for the following items: Eritrean Orthodox Church elects its third Patriarch - Abune Antonios enthroned as Eritrean Patriarch - Four new Eritrean Bishops)
- Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church in North America
- Kdsti Selassie church in Washington DC
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