Wikipedia's article on the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, read directly for this pass, which states the church was given autocephaly by Shenouda III of Alexandria, pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, after Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1993, and separately covers the 2005 to 2007 removal of Patriarch Abune Antonios.
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A community-edited tertiary reference, not peer-reviewed, but the 1993 autocephaly grant date is settled twentieth-century history independently corroborated against the already-cited Britannica source on the same fact, with no live dispute over the year. NotesCited for the 1993 autocephaly grant date, confirming when the church's separation is recorded as having begun.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrean_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church
Source Typereference
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This source names Alexandria directly: "given autocephaly by Shenouda III of Alexandria, pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, after Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1993, and separately covers the 2005 to 2007 removal of..."
This source names Eritrea directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, read directly for this pass, which states the church was given autocephaly by Shenouda III of Alexandria, pope of the Coptic Orthodox..."
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