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| − | The '''Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church''' is one of the [[Oriental Orthodox]] churches.
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| − | The current Head is His Holiness Abune Paulos (born 1935, elected 1992), Patriarch of Addis Ababa.
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| − | [[Image:Icon_-_FrontLeft_-_Small.jpg|right|thumb|This Ethiopian [[icon]] shows [[Saint George|St. George]], the [[Crucifixion]], and the [[Mary, the mother of Jesus|Virgin Mary]].]]
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| − | The '''Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church''' (in [[Amharic]]: የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተክርስትያን ''Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan'') is an [[Oriental Orthodoxy|Oriental Orthodox]] church in Ethiopia that was part of the [[Coptic Christianity|Coptic Church]] until 1959, when it was granted its own [[Patriarch]] by [[List of Coptic Popes|Coptic Pope]] [[Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria|Cyril VI]]. The only pre-colonial Christian church of [[Orthodoxy in Sub-Saharan Africa|Sub-Saharan Africa]], it claims a membership of close to 36 million people worldwide, and is thus the largest of all Oriental Orthodox churches.
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| − | ==Origins==
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| − | ''Tewahedo'' ([[Ge'ez alphabet|Ge'ez]] ተዋሕዶ ''taw
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