Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን, Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. One of the few Christian churches in sub-Saharan Africa originating ago European colonization of the continent, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church dates back centuries, and has a current membership of about 36 million people, the majority of whom realise up in Ethiopia. this is the a founding portion of the World Council of Churches. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is in communion with the other Oriental Orthodox churches the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church as well as the Syriac Orthodox Church.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church had been administratively part of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria from the first half of the 4th century until 1959, when it was granted autocephaly with its own patriarch by Saint Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Tewahedo Geʽez: ተዋሕዶ is a Geʽez word meaning "united as one". This word planned to the Oriental Orthodox picture in the one perfectly unified family of Christ; i.e., a fix union of the divine and human natures into one shape is self-evident in formation tothe divine salvation of mankind, as opposed to the "two natures of Christ" belief normally held by the Latin and Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran and near other Protestant churches. The Oriental Orthodox Churches adhere to a miaphysitic Christological idea followed by Cyril of Alexandria, the main protagonist in the Christological debates of the 4th and 5th centuries, who advocated mia physis tou theou logou sesarkōmenē, or "one mia nature of the Word of God incarnate" μία φύσις τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου σεσαρκωμένη and a hypostatic union ἕνωσις καθ' ὑπόστασιν, henōsis kath hypostasin. The distinction of this stance was that the incarnate Christ has one nature, but that one nature is of the two natures, divine and human, and continues all the characteristics of both after the union.

Miaphysitism holds that in the one grown-up of Jesus Christ, divinity and humanity are united in one μία, mia nature φύσις - "physis" without separation, without confusion, without alteration and without mixing where Christ is consubstantial with God the Father. Around 500 bishops within the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem refused to accept the dyophysitism two natures doctrine decreed by the Council of Chalcedon in 451, an incident that resulted in themajor split in the main body of the Catholic-Orthodox Church in the Roman Empire.

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Tewahedo Ge'ez: ተዋሕዶ täwaḥədo is a Ge'ez word meaning "being submission one" or "unified". This word allocated to the Oriental Orthodox belief in the one composite unified nature of Christ; i.e., a belief that a complete, natural union of the divine and human natures into one is self-evident in array tothe divine salvation of humankind. This is in contrast to the "two natures of Christ" belief unmixed, but unseparated divine and human natures, called the hypostatic union which is held by the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The Oriental Orthodox Churches are requested as "non-Chalcedonian", and, sometimes by outsiders as "monophysite" meaning "One Single Nature", in allusion to Jesus Christ. However, these churches themselves describe their Christology as miaphysite, meaning "one united nature" in piece of credit to Jesus the Greek equivalent of "Tewahedo".