Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in the Western Hemisphere and Southern Africa, 1939-1998.

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Yesehaq, Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the Western Hemisphere, 1933-2005. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in the Western Hemisphere and Southern Africa, 1939-1998.

Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in the Western Hemisphere and Southern Africa, 1939-1998.

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The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOC) in the Western Hemisphere and Southern Africa Records (1939-1998) consists primarily of correspondence (1960-1997) but also contains minutes (1960-1964; 1994, 1996), addresses and speeches by clergy, printed matter, and some ephemera, a notebook of members' information (1970), and financial statements and documents (1956-1984). A significant portion of the correspondence (1993-1997) relates to tensions within the EOC generated by the installation of Abuna Paulos, an archbishop elected by the Holy Synod in Addis Ababa to replace Abuna Yesehaq, the Archbishop of the EOC in the Western Hemishphere and Southern Africa, and the Bronx EOC's legal challenge of Paulos's authority over the congregation and its property. The correspondence also records inquiries from persons interested in the liturgy of the EOC, general news of the EOC in Ethiopia, the United States and Caribbean, and needs of the EOC in South Africa. Also represented in the collection are correspondence and financial ledgers of the Ethiopian World Federation (1938-1970) and some records of the Ethiopian Students' Association in North America, including a list of Ethiopian students in the United States in1965. Some material is written in Amharic.

4.6 lin. ft. (1 record carton, 1 archival box, 3 flat boxes)

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