the Ethiopian Church gradually lost touch with the mainstream of Christianity and even with the Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria, to which it is still theoretically subject. Since 1959 ...

Professor Tadesse Tamrat, Professor of History, Addis Ababa University ... Although autonomous in its rulings, the Ethiopian church remained connected to the Coptic Church until the mid-20th ...

Eastern orthodox churches, including the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, celebrate Christmas on the same day in January. Western Christians, who use the Gregorian ...