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This was due to many reasons: (1) The Fathers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church do not pursue after their own glory, but had seen the glory of others. (2) The word, "a prophet has no honor in his country" (John 4:44) is a very respected phrase by the Ethiopians. (3) If a native person is declared a bishop, there was a concern that he could be attracted and become partial in his authority for those who had a blood relationship with him. (4) Since the dogma of the deceased parents discriminated to the Ethiopians for occupying such positions.

In 1926, after the death of Abuna Mathewos, Emperor Haile Selassie I, then Ras Tafari, began negotiating the appointment of an Ethiopian native bishop to be head of the Ethiopia Orthodox Church. He was agreed by the patriarch of Holiness of his Cyril V and by the Synical Synical of the Copta Church, and in May 1929, five Ethiopian bishops were bishops for the first time in the history of the Ethiopia Orthodox Church. Unfortunately, the five bishops were killed by Italian forces during the five-year war (1935-1940) by Mussolini.

April 6, 1971, when the Church reached the highest peak of the patriarchal seat when Abuna Theophilus was chosen Patriarch, along with Abuna Basilos, the first Ethiopian native patriarch who became bishop in Alexandria and died in 1970.

What are the teachings of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia?

As in all Eastern Orthodox churches, the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia based on the experience of the apostle of Jesus Christ, which is the creator and savior of the world.