Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Oriental Orthodox · 1993–1998 · Eritrea; diaspora
Eritrea's national church, made autocephalous in step with the country's independence — a political-geography fork accomplished by agreement rather than rupture.
Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church was formed between 1993 and 1998, as a process rather than a single event. Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church continues today. Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church's institutional line runs back through Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Oriental Orthodoxy to the post-apostolic church. No body on this tree is the assembly of Acts 2; where a body claims that, the claim appears in the claimed-lineage layer.
Between the post-apostolic church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church stand 1 division along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.
At a glance
- Formed
- Between 1993 and 1998, as a process rather than a single event
- Family
- Oriental Orthodox
- Region
- Eritrea; diaspora
- Key figures
- Abune Phillipos I
- Cause tags
- Geography, Politics
What it was organized out of
- National organization of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, not a separation from it.
On the tree
Solid lines are separations and unions; dashed lines are renewals that began inside a body; dotted gray lines are national organizations of one communion; a diamond marks a fork event where neither side is drawn as the one that left. Every line runs back to the post-apostolic church; no body descends from the assembly of Acts 2. Dashed gray boxes mark the institutional line after the apostles, shown as departure; no line of descent is drawn from Pentecost. A verdict appears on a box once its section is published.
Sources
Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-31.