Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia. Headquarters are in Addis Ababa, the country's capital.
Custom holds that Ethiopia was first converted by St. Matthew and St. Bartholomew in the principal century CE, and the really Ethiopian adherent is made sure to have been the eunuch in Jerusalem referred to in The Acts of the Apostles (8:27-40). Ethiopia was moreover Christianized in the fourth century CE by two men (likely kin) from Tire-St. Frumentius, later purified the really Ethiopian priest, and Aedesius. They won the sureness of the ruler at Aksum (a solid domain in northern Ethiopia) and were allowed to convert. The succeeding ruler, Ezana, was submersed by Frumentius, and Christianity was made the state religion. Near the uttermost furthest reaches of the fifth 100 years, nine clerics from Syria are said to have conveyed plainness to Ethiopia and enabled the understanding of the Scriptures into the GeĘżez language.
The Ethiopian church followed the Coptic (Egyptian) church (by and by called the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria) in excusing the Christological decision gave by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 CE that the human and radiant characteristics of Jesus Christ were comparatively present in one person without coinciding.
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