What is the origin of Ethiopian orthodox church?
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Tewahido is a Ge'ez word meaning "being made one"; it is related to the Arabic word توحيد tawhid, meaning "monotheism". This refers to the Oriental Orthodox belief in the one single unique Nature of Christ (a complete union of the Divine and Human Natures), as opposed to the "two Natures of Christ" belief (unmixed Divine and Human Natures, called the Hypostatic Union) held by today's Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Henoticon [1]: the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, and many others, all refused to accept the "two natures" doctrine decreed by the Byzantine Emperor Marcian's Council of Chalcedon in 451, thus separating them from the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, who themselves separated following the East-West Schism. The Oriental Orthodox Churches, which today include the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Malankara Orthodox Church of India, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, are referred to as "Non-Chalcedonian", and, sometimes by outsiders as "monophysite" (meaning "One Nature", in reference to Christ; a rough translation of the name Tewahido). However, these Churches themselves describe their Christology as miaphysite.\n\nThe Ethiopian Church claims its origins from Philip the Evangelist (Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 8). It became the established church of the Ethiopian Axumite Kingdom under king Ezana in the 4th century through the efforts of Frumentius, known in Ethiopia as Abune Selama, Kesaté Birhan ("Our Father of Peace, Revealer of Light"). As a boy, Frumentius had been shipwrecked with his brother Aedesius in Ethiopia. The brothers managed to be brought to the royal court, where they rose to positions of influence and converted Emperor Ezana to Christianity. Ezana sent Frumentius to Alexandria to ask the Patriarch, St. Athanasius, to appoint a bishop for Ethiopia. Athanasius appointed Frumentius himself, who returned to Ethiopia as Bishop with the name of Abune Selama. For centuries afterward, the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria always named a Copt (an Egyptian) to be Abuna or Archbishop of the Ethiopian Church.
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What country?  Egypt?\nRastafari\nEgyptian/Ethiopian roots.
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The coptic cross is worn by Ethiopian Christians as a symbol of faith.  The coptic cross designs are specific to towns or provinces.  The coptic cross reflects a number of historic influences including Greek, Latin, Egyptian, and Celtic design elements.  The coptic cross is either cast using the lost wax method or cut from silver coins. We have a collection of silver coptic cross pendants to be worn as coptic cross jewelry. The coptic cross pendant can also be used to adorn an altar. Our coptic cross collection includes several differnet coptic cross styles.
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You mean the frist building? The church was "instituted" when Jesus gave it to the apostles. But im not sure when the first actual building was erected. Constantine might have built the first one. The first Catholic "church" would have jsut been in someones house or in a cave, before Constantine legalized the religion
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Rasta, or the Rastafari movement, is a religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia, as King of Kings, Lord of Lords and the Lion of Judah as Jah (the Rastafari name for God, from a shortened form of Jehovah found in Psalms 68:4 in the King James Version of the Bible), and part of the Holy Trinity. The name Rastafari comes from Ras Täfäri, the pre-coronation name of Haile Selassie I. The movement emerged in Jamaica among working-class and peasant black people in the early 1930s, arising from an interpretation of Biblical prophecy, black social and political aspirations, and the teachings of their prophet, Jamaican black publicist and organiser Marcus Garvey, whose political and cultural vision helped inspire a new world view. The movement is sometimes called "Rastafarianism"; however, this is considered improper and offensive by Rastas.
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Could you tell us at first what is meant by Orthodox Christians? Because there are many Christians rites that say they are Orthodox.
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Well, that would require a 100 page essay to list all the differences, and a major history language.\n\nBoth would be preferred , at least by me, over Roman Orthodox, but I would say Coptic would be closer to what the church was like after Jesus' death/Resurrection.
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The Ark of the Covenant is supposed to be in an Ethiopian Monastary under heavy guard.
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Try this....\n\nhttp://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2139/Halie_Selassie_Ethiopian_ruler
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The colours of the Ethiopian flag, where the religion started.
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Christianity is a Dualist religion.  This means that it is based on the concept of competition between good and evil,  The duality based religion started long before Judaism or Christianity in the ancient middle east
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IT WAS FOUNDED IN AFRICa> LIKE THATS WHERE IT WAS FIRST. IF THAT HELPS? VOTE ME AS BEST ANSWEr.
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If you are looking for the first breakaway from the Catholic religion, it wasn't the Protestants that hold that distinction, but Islam, then the Eastern Orthodox. The East-West Schism, known also as the Great Schism (though this latter term sometimes refers to the later Western Schism), was the event that divided Chalcedonian Christianity into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Though normally dated to 1054, the East-West Schism was actually the result of an extended period of estrangement between the two Churches. The primary causes of the Schism were disputes over papal authority—the Pope claimed he held authority over the four Eastern patriarchs, while Eastern Orthodox today claim that the primacy of the Patriarch of Rome was only honorary, and thus he had authority only over Western Christians—and over the insertion of the filioque clause into the Nicene Creed. There were other, less significant catalysts for the Schism, including variance over liturgical practices and conflicting claims of jurisdiction.\n\nBut for the origins of other Christian denominations and their roots...\n\nReligion:         ANGLICAN\nYear instituted:  1534 A.D. \nInstituted by:    King Henry VIII (Because he was refused a divorce)\nLocation:         England\n\nReligion:         ASSEMBLY OF GOD\nYear instituted:  1914 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Developed from a revival movement in the early 1900's\nLocation:         Hot Springs, Arkansas\n\nReligion:         BAPTIST\nYear instituted:  1607 A.D.\nInstituted by:    John Smyth\nLocation:         Amsterdam\n\nReligion:         CALVINIST\nYear instituted:  1533 A.D.\nInstituted by:    John Calvin (former Protestant)\nLocation:         -----\n\nReligion:         CHRISTIAN REFORMED\nYear instituted:  1857 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Separated from Dutch Reformed Church\nLocation:         -----\n\nReligion:         CHRISTIAN SCIENCE\nYear instituted:  1879 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Mary Baker Eddy\nLocation:         Boston, Massachusetts\n\nReligion:         CHURCH OF NAZARENE\nYear instituted:  1919\nInstituted by:    Union of General Assembly\nLocation:         -----\n\nReligion:         CONGREGATIONALIST\nYear instituted:  1582 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Robert Brown\nLocation:         Holland\n\nReligion:         DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH\nYear instituted:  1628 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Michelis Jones\nLocation:         New York, United States\n\nReligion:         EASTERN ORTHODOX\nYear instituted:  1054 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem\nLocation:         -----\n\nReligion:         EPISCOPALIAN\nYear instituted:  1789 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Samuel Seabury\nLocation:         United States\n\nReligion:         EVANGELICAL\nYear instituted:  1803\nInstituted by:    Jacob Albright\nLocation:         Pennsylvania, United States\n\nReligion:         EVANGELICAL REFORMED\nYear instituted:  1934\nInstituted by:    Union at General Assembly\nLocation:         Cleveland, Ohio\n\nReligion:         FREE METHODIST\nYear instituted:  1860 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Separated from the Methodist Church\nLocation:         Niagara Country, N.Y., United States\n\nReligion:         ISLAM\nYear instituted:  600 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Mohammed\nLocation:         Saudi Arabia\n\nReligion:         JEHOVAH'S WITNESS\nYear instituted:  1872 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Charles Taze Russell\nLocation:         Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States\n\nReligion:         LUTHERAN\nYear instituted:  1517 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Martin Luther (ex-monk)\nLocation:         Germany\n\nReligion:         MENNONITE\nYear instituted:  1525 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Grebel, Mantz and Blaurock\nLocation:         Switzerland\n\nReligion:         METHODIST\nYear instituted:  1744 A.D.\nInstituted by:    John & Charles Wesley\nLocation:         England\n\nReligion:         MORMON (LATTER-DAY SAINTS)\nYear instituted:  1830 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Joseph Smith\nLocation:         Palmyra, N.Y.,
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Dictionaries give the origin of "church" as the Anglo-Saxon root, circe. Circe was the goddess-daughter of Helios, the Sun-deity. The word circe is related to "circus," "circle," "circuit," and "circulate."\n\nCirce was originally a Greek goddess whose name was written and pronounced as Kirke. The word "church" is known in Scotland as kirk, in Germany as Kirche, and in Netherlands as kerk.
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Do you mean Eastern Orthodox Christianity? Well, let me give a start - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and Moldova (I'm not sure about those last two). I'm not sure about Hungary either. The CIA Factbook can give details.
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The Eastern Orthodox Church (encompassing national Orthodox jurisdictions such as Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, etc.—see Eastern Orthodox Church organization) is a body of Christians that claims origins extending directly back to Jesus and his Apostles through unbroken Apostolic Succession. Its doctrines were formalized through a series of church councils, the most authoritative being the Seven Ecumenical Councils held between the 4th and 8th centuries. These councils were convened out of the necessity to resolve conflicts that had developed concerning beliefs such as Arianism, Nestorianism, and Monothelitism. Toward the end of its first thousand years of existence, differences developed between the Church in the Eastern and Western Roman Empire that ultimately led to the Great Schism in 1054, dividing Chalcedonian Christianity into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.\n\nBased on numbers of adherents, Eastern Orthodoxy is the second largest Christian communion in the world after the Roman Catholic Church, and the third largest grouping overall after Protestantism. There are approximately 215 million Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide.[1]\n\nThe present-day influence of the Eastern Orthodox Church encompasses the territories associated with the former Byzantine and Russian empires: Eastern Europe, Asia (Russia/Siberia), and parts of the Middle East and Africa. Today, although Eastern Orthodoxy's strongest influence can be seen in Greece, Cyprus, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia and Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Republic of Moldova, Bulgaria, and Georgia, the Orthodox Church has a presence in a great many other countries largely because of the emigration of Eastern Orthodox peoples, with large communities in the USA, Canada and Australia.
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The origin of the ancient ecclesiastic music, with character of monody, sung in the liturgy of the Roman Rite under the name of Gregorian Chant, goes back to a distant past. The traditional name stems from that of the Pope Gregory the Great (about the year 600). Gregory I was a Doctor of the Church. He studied laws and about the year 570 he obtained the charge of prefects urbis. He moved back later to his own house which turned into a monastery. In the year 578 he was ordained as a priest and in 590 he was elected as a Pope; it had to face to a great crisis for Justiniano's restoration had failed. He was the first pontiff who with his pastoral review and his reform exposed himself to the Germanic world. Due to an information contributed by his biographer it was admitted later and in a widespread way that this Pope not only had polished and arranged the musical repertoire of the ancient ecclesiastic music, but even he was the author, partly well or completely, of numerous melodies. These were his works: pastorals, Regula pastoralis; hagiographical, Libri quattuor dialogorum; and homiletics, Homiliae 22 in Ezech, and Homiliae 40 in Evang. In his iconography he is represented frecuently writing under the dictation and inspiration of the Holy Spirit which appears symbolically in the shape of pigeon placed next to his ear.\n\nNevertheless, the Gregorian Chant that currently can be compiled in several volumes and forming the quite unitary one is not a work of only one man nor even of only one generation. The knowledge that we possess of the history and of the origin of the ecclesiastic melodies is far from being deep, since scarcely there are some few manuscripts previous to the 10th century that have come up to us. Fortunately, the compared study of the old texts and of the liturgical forms has thrown new light on this topic. The graduals and the current antiphons contain all the chants corresponding to the ecclesiastic year, but the order in which they are presented to us does not indicate of what periods the different melodies proceed neither to what changes they have been submitted and how they have taken place in the course of the centuries.\n\nThe christianity never broke with the cultural forms that already existed in the moment of his appearance. What it did was to recapture them and, only in case of need, to adapt them for his own employment. The language and the art of the cultural medium was placed to the service of the spread of the new religious message. Thus, the first Christians used, undoubtedly, the melodies that previously they knew.\n\nIn Jerusalem and his surroundings, the zone where the first organized Christians arose, there existed two cultures, one next to other, and also intermingled: the purely Jewish traditional culture that had expression in the temple and in the services of the synagogues and the culture of the Hellenistic civilization that had arisen in the last centuries before Jesus Christ and that was spreading over the countries of the basin of the Mediterranean (from Alexandria in Egypt, up to Rome). This culture created a common language, the so called Hellenistic Greek , and in her there were fused some other own cultures of different peoples that were part of this so wide and varied world. The liturgy of Rome —that was celebrated, at first, in Greek language and from the IVth century already in Latin—, was using words of Hebrew origin proceeding from the epoch previous to Christ, as "Hosanna", "Hallelujah", "Amen ", and also Greek words like "Kyrie eleison" and "Agios o Theos".\n\nThe primitive music comes essentially from the Jewish synagogues. We have no information about the ancient Hellenistic music to be able to state his traces or his influence on the Christian music. In the Christian liturgy we can detect, on the contrary, the clear influence of the Jewish liturgy, like for example, the prayer that is intoned when the lamp is ignit