*** Buhe ( Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church )

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church claims to possess the Ark of the Covenant, or Tabot, in Axum, not far from the border with Eritrea.

Category: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

The Books of the Bible are listed differently in the canons of Judaism and the Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Slavonic Orthodox, Coptic, Georgian Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac, Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches, although there is substantial overlap.

The Oriental Orthodox communion comprises six groups: Syriac Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Eritrean Orthodox, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church ( India ) and Armenian Apostolic churches.

Some accounts regard members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ( roughly 45 million ), the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church ( roughly 2. 5 million ), as members of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

In 1959, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was granted its first own Patriarch by Pope Cyril VI.

Furthermore, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church similarly became independent of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church in 1994, when four bishops were consecrated by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria to form the basis of a local Holy Synod of the Eritrean Church.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church do acknowledge the Honorary Supremacy of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, since the Church of Alexandria is technically their Mother Church.

On 13 July 1948, the Coptic Church of Alexandria and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church reached an agreement concerning the relationship between the two churches.

In 1950, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church was granted autocephaly by Pope Joseph II of Alexandria, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

The Coptic Orthodox Church refused to recognize the election and enthronement of Abuna Takla Haymanot on the grounds that the Synod of the Ethiopian Church had not removed Abuna Theophilos, and that the Ethiopian government had not publicly acknowledged his death, and he was thus still legitimate Patriarch of Ethiopia.

This is however a misnomer, since both the Ethiopian and the Eritrean Churches, although daughter churches of the Church of Alexandria, are currently autocephalous churches.

From then on, until 1959, the Pope of Alexandria, as Patriarch of All Africa, always named an Egyptian ( a Copt ) to be the Archbishop of the Ethiopian Church.

This promotion was completed when Joseph II consecrated the first Ethiopian-born Archbishop, Abuna Basilios, as head of the Ethiopian Church on 14 January 1951.

The Ethiopian government then ordered the Ethiopian Church to elect Abuna Takla Haymanot as Patriarch of Ethiopia.

The subsequent investigation revealed that Sudan was involved in this act, forcing the Ethiopian government to take a series of steps against Sudan that September, which included closing the Sudanese consulate in Gambela, reducing the number of Sudanese embassy staff, and terminating all Sudan Airways and Ethiopian Airlines flights between the two countries.

* 1937 – Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace ( the former Imperial residence ) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.

The subsequent investigation revealed that Sudan was involved in this act, forcing the Ethiopian government to take a series of steps against Sudan that September, which included closing the Sudanese consulate in Gambela, reducing the number of Sudanese embassy staff, and terminating all Sudan Airways and Ethiopian Airlines flights between the two countries.

Although a number of European explorers contemplated tracing the course of the Blue Nile from its confluence with the White Nile to Lake Tana, its gorge, which begins a few miles inside the Ethiopian border, has discouraged all attempts since Frédéric Cailliaud's attempt in 1821.

Also in the 1990s, a large number of Ethiopian Jews started arriving in Beit Shemesh together with affluent new immigrants from English speaking countries.

The city ranked relatively low in the socioeconomic index ( 3 out of 10 ) In the wake of Operation Solomon, Netivot absorbed a large number of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants.

Since that time, Ethiopian Jews have continued to immigrate to Israel bringing the number of Ethiopian-Israelis today to over 100, 000.

Yeha has also been the site of a number of archaeological excavations, beginning in 1952 by the Ethiopian Institute of Archeology.

The Ethiopian ruler was holding a number of Protestant missionaries hostage, in his mountain capital of Magdala, as well as two British diplomats who had unsuccessfully attempted to free them.

In the Ethiopian Empire, especially during the Solomonic dynasty, many Emperors would take a throne name, though this was not a general practice ; a great number of rulers would remain known during their reign by their birth names.

A number of immigrant populations worship throughout the neighborhood as the population diversifies, including Russian Orthodox, Ethiopian and Vietnamese.

However, over the following months radicals in the Ethiopian military came to believe he was acting on behalf of the hated aristocracy, and when a group of notables petitioned for the release of a number of government ministers and officials who were under arrest for corruption and other crimes, three days later the Derg was announced.

There are now also a sizable number of Ethiopian Jews, some of whom live in temporary camps, hoping to emigrate to Israel.

This causes the Ethiopian year number to be eight years less than the Gregorian year number from January 1 until September 10 or 11, then seven years less for the remainder of the Gregorian year.

This monastery became one of the most important religious institutions of Ethiopia, not only founding a number of daughter houses, but its abbot became one of the principal leaders of the Ethiopian Church called the Echege, second only to the Abuna.

Crop loss from locusts was noted in the Bible and Qur ' an ; these insects have been documented as contributing to the severity of a number of Ethiopian famines.

Sanya Richards recorded the fastest women's 400 metres time since 2006 while the Dream Mile brought a number of records with winner Deresse Mekonnen improving upon his Ethiopian record, Kenyan William Biwott Tanui setting a world junior record and third-placed Augustine Choge beating his personal best.

Since 2001, a number of Ethiopian restaurants and retail businesses have either opened or moved from nearby Adams Morgan into Shaw, settling in particular on the once desolate block of 9th Street, NW between U and T Streets.

However, the Ogaden people are represented in the Ethiopian government by a number of groups, including the opposition Somali People's Democratic Party ( SPDP ).

Sources differ over the number of years he raided Ethiopia: Francisco Álvares states that his raids began in the reign of Eskender, and lasted 25 years ; however, Beckingham and Huntingford note that the Ethiopian Paris Chronicle, which draws on contemporary Ethiopian records, dates the beginning of these raids to the ascension of Lebna Dengel in 1508.

This is similar to the partial fasting within the Ethiopian Orthodox Church ( abstaining from meat and milk ) which takes place during certain times of the year and lasts for weeks.

In Eritrea and Ethiopia, a variety of stews, known as wat, sometimes salads ( during Ethiopian Orthodox fasting, for which believers abstain from most animal products ) or simply more injera ( called injera firfir ), are placed upon the injera for serving.

During the fasting period in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church tradition called filliseta ( which is in August ), two uncooked, spicy, vegetable dishes are made using broad beans.

In Eritrea and Ethiopia, a variety of stews, sometimes salads ( during Ethiopian Orthodox fasting, for which believers abstain from most animal products ) or simply more injera ( called injera firfir ), are placed upon the injera for serving.

It is an Ethiopian name of the Ge ‘ ez script, ’ ä bu gi da, taken from four letters of that script the way abecedary derives from Latin a be ce de.

Central areas of Eritrea and most tribes in today's northern Ethiopia share a common background and cultural heritage in the Kingdom of Aksum ( and its successor dynasties ) of the first millennium ( as well as the first millennium BC kingdom of D ’ mt ), and in its Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church ( today, with an autocephalous Eritrean branch ), as well as in its Ge ' ez language.

Another distinctive Ethiopian dish is kitfo ( frequently spelled ketfo ), which consists of raw ( or rare ) beef mince marinated in mitmita ( Ge ' ez: ሚጥሚጣ mīṭmīṭā, a very spicy chili powder ) and niter kibbeh.

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).

In the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church unleavened bread is used for communion ( called qddus qurban in the lithurgical language of the Eritreans and Ethiopians Ge ' ez ).

Rasta doctrines concerning the Trinity include stressing the significance of the name " Haile Selassie ", meaning " Power of the Trinity " or " Might of the Trinity " or powerful trinity in Ge ' ez — the name given to Ras Tafari upon his baptism, and later assumed as part of his regal name at his November 2, 1930, coronation by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

According to Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church tradition, the straits of Bab-el-Mendeb were witness to the earliest migrations of Semitic Ge ' ez speakers into Africa, occurring roughly around the same time as the Hebrew patriarch Jacob.

Both Christian and Jewish Ethiopian tradition has it that these immigrants were mostly of the Tribes of Dan and Judah ; hence the Ge ' ez motto Mo ` a ' Anbessa Ze ' imnegede Yihuda (" The Lion of the Tribe of Judah has conquered "), included among the titles of the Emperor ( King of Kings ) throughout the Solomonic Dynasty.

Today Ge ' ez remains only as the main language used in the liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ethiopian Catholic Church, and also the Beta Israel Jewish community.

Ge ' ez, because of its status within Ethiopian culture, and possibly also because of its inherently simple construction, acted as a literary medium until relatively recent times.

Jubilees is considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as well as Jews in Ethiopia, where it is known as the Book of Division ( Ge ' ez: Mets ' hafe Kufale ).

There are also several ancient translations, most important of which are in the Syriac dialect of Aramaic ( including the Peshitta and the Diatessaron gospel harmony ), in the Ethiopian language of Ge ' ez, and in Latin ( both the Vetus Latina and the Vulgate ).

Ethiopian tradition also credits him with the first Ge ' ez translation of the New Testament.

Both Christian and Jewish Ethiopian tradition has it that there were also immigrants of the Tribes of Dan and Judah that accompanied Makeda ( Queen of Sheba ) back from her visit to Solomon ; hence the Ge ' ez motto Mo ` a ' Anbessa Ze ' imnegede Yihuda (" The Lion of the Tribe of Judah has conquered "), included among the titles of the Emperor ( King of Kings ) throughout the Solomonic Dynasty.

* Ge ' ez in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Ethiopian Catholic Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church

* Ge ' ez, the predecessor of many Ethiopian Semitic languages ( e. g. Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre ) used as a liturgical language by Ethiopian Jews and by Ethiopian Christians ( in both the Orthodox Tewahedo and the Catholic churches ).

When summoned to the court of the young Emperor ( negusä nägäst ) Za Dengel, his knowledge of Amharic and Ge ' ez, as well as his knowledge of Ethiopian customs impressed the sovereign so much that Za Dengel decided to convert from the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church to Catholicism -- although Páez warned him not to announce his declaration too quickly.