Saint Athanasius

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church: History, …

in 328 CE. Apparently, Athanasius was the protagonist who argued against Arius at the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE; only three years after Nicaea, thus, the new Ethiopian Christian Tewahedo Church was founded as followers of Athanasius and ever since the Church was headed by an Egyptian bishop until it became autocephalous.

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