Ethiopia

• General and Historic:
  • Easton's Dictionary: (Read with caution -- Protestant bias. References are to King James Version.)
  • Ethiopian Christian Biographies: --- Dictionary of African Christian Biography
  • History of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Homepage, by "EthioCrown" --- EthioCrown
  • Imperial Ethiopia Homepage, by "EthioCrown" --- EthioCrown

  • Stuart Munro-Hay: Aksum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity: --- ALIGHT

  • Ancient History Sourcebook: Accounts of Meröe, Kush, and Axum, c. 430 BCE - 550 CE: --- AHSP
  • Tadesse Tamrat: Ethiopia, the Red Sea, and the Horn, (1977). Chapter 2 of The Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. III, edited by Roland Oliver, (Cambridge University Press, 1977).

  • Sir John Gay: Early Portuguese Missionaries in East Africa, (1958). London: Macmillan, 1958. These Portuguese, needless to say, were in constant conflict with the Ethiopian Church.

• Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church [NON-CHALCEDONIAN]: "Tewahedo" means "One Nature."
  • Archbishop Yesehaq: The Ethiopian Tewahedo Church. Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Bronx, no date. In the late XX Century this was probably the single most useful and informative reference book about the Church of Ethiopia available in English, despite being privately published, hard to find, eccentrically organised, and illustrated in part with unbearably gruesome photographs of Italian wartime atrocities.
    • Archbishop Yesehaq: The Ethiopian Orthodox Church: Excerpts from the book. --- EOTC
  • Doctrine of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church: Click the "Doctrine" link. --- Debre Tsion Kidist Mariam
  • Getnet Tamene: Features of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Clergy: --- ELIS

  • An Interview with the Venerable Getahun Atlaw, Archdeacon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, Israel: Extremely interesting and wide-ranging (but sometimes disturbing to those of us who would like to consider the non-Chalcedonians as Orthodox) interview with one of the Ethiopian Church's most articulate spokesmen. --- Augustan Society
  • Paul Raffaele: Keepers of the Lost Ark? (2007). Smithsonian (38/12): 38. An article on Ethiopian Orthodoxy with some interesting pictures and an interview of sorts with the guardian of the Axum Ark.

• PEOPLE:
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  • St. Yared