Catholic Church in Ethiopia

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Seventeenth-century Portuguese Catholic church in Gorgora.

The Catholic Church in Ethiopia is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome.

The

Italian Ethiopians
.

History

Eastern Orthodox
churches.

Between the 13th and 18th centuries, the Roman Catholic Church sent various missions to Ethiopia. Most of these were directed less at the conversion of non-Christians, but at securing the adhesion to the Holy See of the existing Church. They eventually failed due to the attachment of most Ethiopians to the

Miaphysite
theology was incompatible with that of Rome

The

Fasilides expelled the Patriarch and the European missionaries under penalty of death,[2] who included Jerónimo Lobo
, from the country in 1636; these contacts, which had seemed destined for success under the previous Emperor led, instead, to the complete closure of Ethiopia to further contact with Rome.

From 1839 Msgr.

Justin de Jacobis, and subsequently Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia
, resumed Catholic missionary activities. The Catholic communities currently found in Ethiopia are mostly the fruit of the vigorous work of the above-mentioned missionaries, de Jacobis, and Cardinal Massaja.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "The Eastern Catholic Churches 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  2. ^ .

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