Ethiopian Catholic Church

The Ethiopian Catholic Church is a church and Pope of Rome Catholic Uniate Eastern Church with the Ethiopian rite as both a liturgical order. They must be distinguished from its Ethiopian Orthodox Mother Church and of the Catholic church of the Roman Rite in Ethiopia.

History

Immediately following the " Mohammedanersturm " of the Sultanate of Adal Jesuits began in 1557 with the Catholic missionary in Ethiopia. Emperor Claudius, she pointed downward trend, but they succeeded in 1603 Emperor Asnaf Sagad II to move to the border. Susenyos initially agreed even a church union with Rome (as already in 1450 Emperor Constantine I ), then recanted but in 1630, because he feared the discontent of his subjects. He was overthrown and killed in 1632 but his successor Fasilides ( 1632-1667 ) expelled the Jesuits or let them put to death, as well as Muslim missionaries. The country returned to Orthodox Christianity Coptic embossing. In the first half of the 19th century efforts began at a partial Union. They run parallel to the establishment of a Church of the Latin tradition in the same region, especially in Eritrea and the non - Christianized areas in the south of the Ethiopian state.

Justin de Jacobi, 1839 Apostolic Prefect of the Roman Pope to Ethiopia with jurisdiction over the Latin Catholics celebrated Mass like after Ethiopian rite and won respect and support among priests and faithful of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

1930 chair of the growing number of local Catholics of the Ethiopian rite was in the Italian-occupied Eritrea since 1894 in addition to the existing Latin jurisdiction that supervised mainly Italians, furnished. With the occupation of Ethiopia by Italy in 1936, there was an expansion of Latin jurisdiction districts. After regaining the state independence Ethiopia the foreign missionaries have been expelled; the local Catholic clergy of the Ethiopian rite had strengthened to take on responsibility.

In 1951 the Apostolic Exarchate of Addis Ababa the Ethiopian Catholic Church were established and brought the chair of Eritrea to the Exarchate. On April 9, 1961, the Metropolitan Church ( Church Province) was established in Ethiopia with Addis Ababa as the seat of the metropolitans and Asmara ( Eritrea) and Adigrat as suffragan sees.

After Eritrean independence here in 1995 two new eparchies ( dioceses ), Barentu and Keren, built and lifted the Latin Vicariate Apostolic. In Eritrea, therefore, subject to all Catholics, the Roman Catholic tradition, an Eastern Church hierarchy. 2003 established a new eparchy in Emdeber (Ethiopia ), so that the Ethiopian Catholic Metropolitan Church today comprises six bishoprics, three in Ethiopia and three in Eritrea. These six dioceses form the transnational ecclesiastical province of Addis Ababa.

Roman Catholic ( missionary ) jurisdictions persist in southern Ethiopia: Apostolic Vicariate with six titular bishops ( Awasa, Harar, Meki, Nekemte, Hosanna and Soddo ) and two Apostolic Prefectures under the direction of a priest ( Gambella and Jimma - Bonga ). The Apostolic Prefectures Gambella and Jimma - Bonga were collected on 5 December 2009 at the Apostolic vicariates with a Titular at the top. The Apostolic Vicariate of Soddo Hosanna was divided on 10 January 2010, and erected the Vicariate Apostolic Soddo.