Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

The fasting calendar that gives injera its fasting-food role here belongs to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Venerated as the creator of zema, the tradition's liturgical chant, its three modes and the Deggua hymnary; every debtera lineage traces its art to him.

The tsenatsil is shaken during the sung portions of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo liturgy, usually alongside the kebero drum.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, whose exclusive standing as the state's religion the campaigns' land, inheritance and forced-baptism measures were written to enforce.

One of the Oriental Orthodox communion of churches that did not accept the Council of Chalcedon.

Administratively part of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church until granted its own autocephaly in 1993.

Aquaquam is a clerical office of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church with its own school, its own master and its own place in the great feasts.

The Ethiopian church holds that the Ark was brought to Aksum and is kept in the chapel beside the church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, seen by one guardian monk who never leaves the enclosure. Every Ethiopian altar carries a tablet standing for it.

The church at Aksum is where the Ethiopian tradition holds the ark of the covenant to be kept, in a chapel that one guardian monk alone may enter.

The antiphonary of the whole church year, ascribed to Yared and sung in Ge'ez.

The Ethiopian church is governed by dioceses under its own patriarch, an arrangement it has held since it ceased to receive its metropolitan from Alexandria.

The three modes of zema, ge'ez, ezl and araray, carry the calendar between them and are taught in the church schools alongside the notation.

The eleven churches cut downward out of the rock are the Ethiopian church's greatest monument and remain in continuous liturgical use.

The Ethiopian church keeps a monthly commemoration of Michael and receives the Book of Enoch as scripture, which gives its angelology a longer roster than the Western churches use.

Ethiopian monasticism is large and old, and its houses have been the principal carriers of the church learning.

The Ethiopian church has had its own patriarch since 1959, having been under the Coptic patriarch of Alexandria until then.

Raphael is received in the Ethiopian church, whose canon is the broadest of any Christian communion and includes both Tobit and the Book of Enoch.

The sistrum is shaken in the Ethiopian office with the prayer staff and the drum, and the instrument is the same one the ancient Egyptian cult used.

The Ethiopian community holds the monastery of Deir al-Sultan on the church roof, and its possession has been disputed with the Coptic church since the nineteenth century without ever being settled.

Received as the third and last council, closing the conciliar inheritance the Tewahedo church recognises.

Received as the first of three councils, and the Nicene faith is the ground the Tewahedo church shares with the churches it later separated from.

Uriel is a leading figure in the Book of Enoch, which the Ethiopian church receives as scripture, so his standing there rests on a canonical text rather than on devotion alone.

The Ethiopian cross is a lattice of interlaced arms whose pattern varies by region and by workshop, and it is neither the Byzantine barred cross nor the Latin one.

The Tewahedo name of the church is itself the position: one made nature, against the two natures the council defined.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Kept as Fasika, at the end of a fast of fifty-five days, the longest of the Ethiopian fasting seasons.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to Lalibela and to the desert monasteries of Egypt is a settled devotion across these churches.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Prayer follows a fixed daily cycle in each of these churches, the Coptic Agpeya, the Armenian Zhamagirk and the Ethiopian horologion, rather than a single common book.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The Coptic, Armenian, Syriac and Ethiopian churches keep the same seven mysteries, likewise baptising, chrismating and communicating infants in one service, each with its own rites and its own reckoning of the details.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Each of these churches has its own family of anaphoras, and the Ethiopian church uses more of them, fourteen in the received collection, than any other in Christendom.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The epiclesis follows the institution narrative, as in the Byzantine rite.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The fraction is an extended rite here, with a fraction prayer that varies by season and by anaphora.

The actual custodian church: the manuscripts have been held at Abba Garima Monastery, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church institution, continuously since their creation and are still used in the church's own liturgy there.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Each of the Oriental Orthodox churches keeps its own ancient liturgy in its own language, the Coptic of Saint Basil, the Armenian Badarak, the Ethiopian Qeddase, with a substantial fast required beforehand.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The institution narrative stands within the anaphora in each of these rites.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The Coptic, Armenian and Ethiopian churches keep their own iconographic styles and honour images in worship, though they were not party to the seventh council at which the East settled the question, having separated in the fifth century.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The Coptic and Ethiopian churches keep an unusually heavy Marian devotion, with monthly as well as annual feasts and widely reported apparitions such as Zeitoun in 1968, and honour their own martyrs, of whom the Coptic calendar counts very many.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The evening office is kept daily, and in the Coptic use the Raising of Incense at Vespers precedes the Liturgy of the following morning.

Ge'ez remains the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, chanted rather than spoken in daily life.

The miaphysite definition, held since the rejection of Chalcedon in 451.

East Africa is home to the ancient highland church of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.