Ethiopian Church

Ethiopian Church
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. Also called Abyssinian Church.
[1900-05]

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