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Ethiopian Church Autocephaly

ETHIOPIAN CHURCH AUTOCEPHALY In the middle of the fourth century, Saint ATHANASIUS, the twentieth patriarch of Alexandria, appointed Frumentius (Salama I) to be the first primate (ABUN) of Ethiopia. From then until the nineteenth century, negotiations between the two churches were generally restricted to Ethiopian requests for a new abun to be consecrated and sent …

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Dayr Al-Tin

Places / By Youssef Matta

DAYR AL-TIN This monastery was mentioned for the first time by al-Shabushti (Atiya, 1939, pp. 25, 26), who died at the end of the tenth century or the beginning of the eleventh. He called it Mar Hanna and situated it on the edge of Lake al-Habash, near the Nile. The HISTORY OF THE PATRIARCHS OF …

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Coptic Liturgical Book Of Difnar

Books / By Youssef Matta

COPTIC LITURGICAL BOOK OF DIFNAR The Difnar is a collection of BOHAIRIC hymns with Arabic translation which remains a part of the contemporary liturgy of the Coptic Church. These hymns commemorate significant people in the Coptic Church or who are of importance to Christianity as a whole, as well as decisive events in the development …

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