Word: frumentius
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Apostolic Origin? The Ethiopians are convinced that their Emperor, Haile Selassie, is a descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and that the Apostle Matthew first brought Christianity to their country. The claim is probably pure legend, since the first known Ethiopian bishop was a certain St. Frumentius, who was consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria in the 4th century. Along with the church of Egypt, Ethiopian Christians adopted the Monophysitic teaching that Jesus had one nature in which the human and divine were commingled-a doctrine that was condemned by the Council of Chalcedon...
Ever since St. Athanasius consecrated Frumentius as the first Bishop of Ethiopia (340 A.D.), Egyptians have held top place in Ethiopia's hierarchy. The present Abuna is bearded, scholarly Cyril, who came from Cairo's St. Anthony Monastery. He crowned Haile Selassie in 1928, has spiritual rule over 4,000,000 Ethiopian Copts. At royal worship in Addis Ababa's octagonal Cathedral of St. George, the Emperor kisses the Egyptian's silk-draped silver cross. But the Abuna continually vexes the King of Kings and the proud Ethiopian court: he offends the country's growing...
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