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The '''Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church''' is one of the [[Oriental Orthodox]] churches. | The '''Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church''' is one of the [[Oriental Orthodox]] churches. | ||
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox churches.
The current Head is His Holiness Abune Paulos (born 1935, elected 1992), Patriarch of Addis Ababa.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (in Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተክርስትያን Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan) is an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia that was part of the Coptic Church until 1959, when it was granted its own Patriarch by Coptic Pope Cyril VI. The only pre-colonial Christian church of Sub-Saharan Africa, it claims a membership of close to 36 million people worldwide, and is thus the largest of all Oriental Orthodox churches.
Origins
Tewahedo (Ge'ez ተዋሕዶ taw
