Britannica's entry on the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church covers its standing as Ethiopia's state church from the fourth century until the 1974 revolution that deposed Emperor Haile Selassie, after which the Marxist Derg regime disestablished the church, nationalized its landholdings and executed Patriarch Abune Tewoflos in 1976, ending over a millennium and a half of formal church-state union.
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A professionally edited reference encyclopedia with named subject-matter editors, stronger than a crowd sourced relay but a tertiary reference work rather than a primary Ethiopian government or church record of the 1974 revolutionary decree itself, hence the middle tier. Citation
PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Ethiopian-Orthodox-Tewahedo-Church
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