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In the seventh century the successes of the Muslim Bedouins cut off the Ethiopian church from contact with the majority of its Christian neighbors. The congregation consumed different syncretic convictions in the next hundreds of years, yet contact with the external Christian world was kept up with through the Ethiopian religious community in Jerusalem.

Starting in the twelfth 100 years, the patriarch of Alexandria selected the Ethiopian diocese supervisor, known as the abuna (Arabic: "our dad"), who was consistently an Egyptian Coptic priest; this made a competition with the local itshage (abbot general) of the solid Ethiopian religious local area. Endeavors to shake Egyptian Coptic control were produced using time to time, however it was only after 1929 that a trade off was affected: an Egyptian priest was again named abuna, yet four Ethiopian diocesans were likewise sanctified as his helpers. A local Ethiopian abuna, Basil, was at long last delegated in 1950, and in 1959 an independent Ethiopian patriarchate was laid out, albeit the congregation kept on perceiving the privileged power of the Coptic patriarch. While adjoining Eritrea acquired autonomy from Ethiopia in 1993, it engaged Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic church, for autocephaly.