Ethiopian Church

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ethiopian Church¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The main Ethiopian church said this move threatened “the institutional unity and existing structural organization of our church.”

From Washington Post

Last month, the Ethiopian church wrote to the Tigrayan bishops, blaming “politics” for coming between them and suggesting the two estranged branches meet.

From Washington Post

Thousands of miles away from the war in Ethiopia, the ethnic cracks have started to show in an Ethiopian church in Ohio, in a lawsuit between trustees and clergy.

From Seattle Times

Breaking with the traditional hierarchy of the Ethiopian church, the Orthodox Synod distanced itself from the patriarch's statement.

From BBC

Next door is MetaFlow, a rental space that had hosted such things as Black Lives Matter meetings, art exhibits and services for an Ethiopian church.

From Los Angeles Times