The Ethiopian Catholic Church is a sui iurisparticular Catholic and Orthodox Church in full communion with the Holy See and of the Alexandrian, or Coptic, Rite. It is the Catholic "counterpart" to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, an Ancient Orthodox Church which is separated in schism from both the Eastern Orthodox and the Western Church. It shares a Divine Liturgy and customs with the Ethiopian Orthodox, while differing in its Christological view and some takes on the Sacraments. Sui iuris is a Latin phrase that literally means “of one’s own rightâ€. It is usually spelled sui juris in civil law, which uses the phrase to indicate legal competence, the capacity to manage one’s own affairs (Blacks Law Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary). ... A Particular Church , in Roman Catholic theology and canon law, is any of the individual constituent ecclesial communities in full communion with the Church of Rome and thus make up the Catholic Communion. ... Full communion is completeness of that relationship between Christian individuals and groups which is known as communion. ... // Partial list of Christian liturgies (past and present) Roman Catholic church (churches in communion with the Holy See of the Bishop of Rome) Latin Rite Novus Ordo Missae Tridentine Mass Anglican Use Mozarabic Rite Ambrosian Rite Gallican Rite Eastern Rite, e. ... The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church is an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia that was part of the Coptic Church until it was granted its own Patriarch by Cyril VI, the Coptic Pope, in 1959. ... The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the churches of Eastern Christian traditions that keeps the faith of only the first three ecumenical councils of the undivided Church - the councils of Nicea, Constantinople and Ephesus. ... Pentecost is considered in Eastern Orthodoxy to be the birth of the Church. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Catholicism. ...
The differnces range from the minor to significant between the Orthodox and Catholic Ethiopian Churches. On the less-important side of things, the Divine Liturgy includes prayers for the Pope to show that they are in full communion with Rome. On the more important side, an orthodox canon of scripture is kept and the Church is Orthodox in its theology, rejecting monophysitism. Children are not ordained to the deaconate, as is common in the Ethiopian Orthodox faith, and the clergy tend to wear a Roman cassock and collar, which is neither Ethiopian in custom nor Eastern in practice.
Jacobus Alexander was the grandson of D.W. Alexander and a priest in the African Orthodox Church.
Arch-deacon Poyah was a deacon in the African Orthodox Church in Bulawayo, Rhodesia.
Churches included are the EthiopianCatholicChurch of South Africa, the Church of Uganda, the National Church of Africa, the Church of the Province of South Africa, the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion and the Imperial Coptic EthiopianChurch in Ethiopia.
WOLISSO, West Shoa Zone, September 24 (WIC) St. Luke Catholic Hospital and a nursing college, built in Wollisso by the EthiopianCatholicChurch at a cost of 44 million Birr was inaugurated September 23.
Abba Tsegaye Keneni, Secretary General of the EthiopianCatholic Secretariat said that the EthiopianCatholicChurch is open to close cooperation with the Ethiopian Government that is playing the primary role in directing and coordinating activities
In this regard Rev. Abba Tsegaye Keneni said that the EthiopianCatholicChurch has recently established a new structure "Social and Development Commission" with branch offices at Diocesan Secretariat levels to work more closely with the governmental institutions in the areas of social services and development programmes.
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