The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church

Denomination·Founded 1998 CE·est. ~2 million; Eritrea has held no census since independence, so every figure is an estimate.

Judaism → Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy → The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church

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Core tenet of The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church

The same faith, under its own patriarch.

Nothing in the Eritrean church's doctrine differs from the Ethiopian or the Coptic: one incarnate nature, the eighty-one book canon, the Ge'ez liturgy, the tabot. What changed in the 1990s was jurisdiction, not confession.

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The Eritrean and Ethiopian churches share a liturgical language, a canon, a fasting calendar and a christology, and remain in communion within the Oriental Orthodox family. The difference is jurisdictional and national: after Eritrea's independence in 1993 the Eritrean bishops did not want to be governed from Addis Ababa. Alexandria, which had once governed both, acted as the granting authority. Liturgical books, chant and the tabot practice are effectively identical, and clergy formation on both sides of the border still draws on the same Ge'ez schooling.

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