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The '''Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church''' is one of the [[Oriental Orthodox|Oriental Orthodox]] churches. It was formerly a part of the [[Church of Ethiopia|Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church]], its [[autocephaly]] being reluctantly recognized by the Ethiopian Patriarchate after Eritrea gained its independence in the 1993. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church had been granted autocephaly by the [[Coptic|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 remain - high between the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church on the one side and the Coptic Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo 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.