Eritrean Orthodox Church Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The
Eritrean Orthodox Tewahido Church is one of the
Oriental Orthodox churches. It was formerly a part of the Ethiopian Orthodox
Tewahedo Church of
Ethiopia, its
autocephaly being reluctantly recognized by the Ethiopian Patriarchate after
Eritrea was given independence in the
1990s. 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, are high between the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church on the one side and the Coptic Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahido 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.
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