Abun (in Europe erroneously known as Abuna, which is the status constructus form used when a name follows: Ge`ez አቡነ ’abuna/abune, `our father`; Amharic and Tigrinya) is the honorific title used for any bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as well as of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. It was historically used solely f......
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Ethiopian patriarch
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(from the article `Ethiopian Orthodox church`) Beginning in the 12th century, the patriarch of Alexandria appointed the Ethiopian archbishop, known as the abuna (Arabic: `our father`), who was ... ...human sides are assumed. It follows the Alexandrian rite, its liturgy being celebrated and recorded in the ancient Ethiopian lan...
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A·bu'na (ȧ*bō'nȧ)
noun [ Eth. and Arabic , our father.] The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
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the title of the chief bishop of the Ethiopian Church.
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