{"id":27495,"date":"2013-03-01T17:08:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T21:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/new-patriarch-for-the-ethiopia\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T12:19:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:19:46","slug":"new-patriarch-for-the-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/new-patriarch-for-the-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"New patriarch for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Abune%20Matthias.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" alt=\"Abune Matthias.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/03\/Abune Matthias-thumb-250x250-13833.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One head of Church leaves his ministry, another picks up a new call to serve God&#8217;s people on the same day. Abune Mathias, 71, was elected to lead Ethiopia&#8217;s 50 million Orthodox Christians, majority of the population. He is the sixth patriarch having received 500 of the 806 possible votes. His predecessor,\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Abune Paulos\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abune_Paulos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Abune Paulos<\/a><\/strong>, was the head of the church since 1992 and died six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Ethiopian Orthodox Church<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has had its own patriarch since 1959 when Pope Cyril VI allowed for the Ethiopian Church to move from the Coptic Orthodox Church and be self-ruling. The Ethiopian Church has apostolic origins.<\/p>\n<p>The new patriarch was ordained to the Order of Deacon in 1948, and a priest-monk in 1955. Since 1971 a bishop. Abune Mathias has been serving as archbishop of the Church in Jerusalem and has lived outside of Ethiopia for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Abune Mathias will be enthroned in\u00a0Holy Trinity Cathedral,\u00a0Addis Ababa, on Sunday, 3 March.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has some of the word&#8217;s oldest churches, sometimes called &#8220;cave churches,&#8221; rock-hewn, which are a World Heritage Site, in\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Lalibela\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lalibela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Lalibella<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in northern Ethiopia. They&#8217;d remind of Raiders of the Lost Ark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One head of Church leaves his ministry, another picks up a new call to serve God&#8217;s people on the same day. Abune Mathias, 71, was elected to lead Ethiopia&#8217;s 50 million Orthodox Christians, majority of the population. He is the sixth patriarch having received 500 of the 806 possible votes. His predecessor,\u00a0Abune Paulos, was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/new-patriarch-for-the-ethiopia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New patriarch for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2643,2176,1846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28964,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495\/revisions\/28964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}