Christianity: Details about 'Eritrean Orthodox Church'
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The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church is an Oriental Orthodox church. It was formerly a part of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, its autocephaly reluctantly recognized by the Ethiopian Patriarchate after Eritrea gained its independence in 1993. Although the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was granted autocephaly by the pope of Coptic Christianity in 1950, the church 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 remain high between the two churches. Nonetheless, the three Churches remain in full communion with one another and with the other Churches of the Oriental Orthodox communion. HG Bishop Athnateous is Bishop for Eritreans in Europe, and HG Bishop Shenouda is Bishop for Eritreans in the USA as of August 2005. In August 2005, the Patriarch of Orthodox Tewahdo Church of Eritrea, H.H. Abune Antonios, was confined to a strictly ceremonial role while administration of the church was taken over by a government appointed layperson, Mr. Yoftahe Dimetros. According to reports the Patriarch fell out of favour for resisting government interference in church affairs. It has also been rumored that the Eritrean government had requested that Pope Shenouda recognize a replacement of Patrarch Antonios, but that the Pope had refused to do so, and had threatened to publicly denounce any such move.">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)
Église érythréenne orthodoxe Eritrees-orthodoxe Kerk |
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