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Little else is known of church history down to the period of Jesuit influence, which broke the connection with Egypt. For centuries afterward, the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria always named a Copt ( an Egyptian) to be Abuna or Archbishop of the Ethiopian Church.

Athanasius appointed Frumentius himself, who returned to Ethiopia as Bishop with the name of Abune Selama. Athanasius, to appoint a bishop for Ethiopia. Ezana sent Frumentius to Alexandria to ask the Patriarch, St.

The brothers managed to be brought to the royal court, where they rose to positions of influence and converted Emperor Ezana to Christianity, causing him to be baptized. As a boy, Frumentius had been shipwrecked with his brother Aedesius on the Eritrean coast. It became the established church of the Ethiopian Axumite Kingdom under king Ezana in the 4th century through the efforts of a Syrian Greek named Frumentius, known in Ethiopia as Abba Selama, Kesaté Birhan ('Father of Peace, Revealer of Light'). The Church of Ethiopia claims its origins from Philip the Evangelist ( Acts 8). However, these Churches themselves describe their Christology as Miaphysite. The Oriental Orthodox Churches, which today include the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Malankara Orthodox Church of India, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, are referred to as 'Non-Chalcedonian', and, sometimes by outsiders as ' monophysite' (meaning 'One Nature', in reference to Christ a rough translation of the name Tewahido). According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Henoticon : the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, and many others, all refused to accept the 'two natures' doctrine decreed by the Byzantine Emperor Marcian's Council of Chalcedon in 451, thus separating them from the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, who themselves separated from one another later in the Great Schism (1054). Tewahedo (Ge'ez tawāhidō, modern pronunciation tewāhidō) is a Ge'ez word meaning 'being made one' it is related to the Arabic word توحيد tawhid, meaning 'monotheism,' or more literally 'unification.' This refers to the Oriental Orthodox belief in the one single unique Nature of Christ (i.e., a belief that a complete, natural union of the Divine and Human Natures into One is self-evident in order to accomplish the divine salvation of humankind), as opposed to the 'two Natures of Christ' belief (unmixed, separated Divine and Human Natures, called the Hypostatic Union) promoted by today's Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

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