Ethiopian Church

American  

noun

1. the Monophysitic church founded by Frumentius in the 4th century a.d., and resembling the Coptic Church in doctrine, practice, and discipline, but using Ethiopic in its liturgy.

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Etymology

Origin of Ethiopian Church

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The work, which started on March 11 in the southern Ethiopian Church compound, is painstaking.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2018

Encouraged by the Emperor, the Ethiopian Church is painfully trying to overcome the centuries of somnolence.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Jewish barber came in and trimmed Haile Selassie's beard, now quite grey, before the little Emperor went to pray at the Ethiopian Church and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

From Time Magazine Archive

Branded heretical, 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.

From Time Magazine Archive

M. D'wane of the Ethiopian Church from Pretoria, Transvaal Republic, South Africa, into the A. M. E. Church, and through him eighty preachers and two thousand eight hundred members.

From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace