Liturgical and Patristic texts being translated into Ethiopian Amharic language

Aksum, Ethiopia, February 18, 2021

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To date, no attempt has been made to translate liturgical and Patristic texts into the Ethiopian Amharic language. However, with the blessing of Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria, the Holy Archdiocese of Aksum aims to change that.

On Tuesday, the Archdiocese reported that it is undertaking a project to translate texts into Amharic, “so that the Ethiopian Orthodox faithful can actively participate in our worship life and taste the spiritual wealth of the ecclesiastical clergy.”

The text of the Divine Liturgy will soon be translated and published, and the first Amharic prayer book is also being prepared. The translation of the biography of St. Paisios, who is very dear to Orthodox Ethiopians, is also underway.

The Nicene Creed is already translated and ready for use in the Divine Liturgy.

Amharic is the working language of Ethiopia and the second-most common language of Ethiopia.

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2/18/2021

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Comments
Χάλεβ Ελεσβόάς1/10/2023 9:07 pm
Someone in this comment section expressed his/her anger because he/she assumed that the writer of this article considered the Monophysites as Orthodoxes. Let him/her know that the Ethiopians mentioned this article is talking about are the ones who are a members of the Greech Patriarchate of Alexandria and All of Africa Archdiocese of Axum and All of Ethiopia and arw not in the Tewahedo Church. Thank you.
Editor12/7/2021 5:26 pm
Concerned person: This article is about the Orthodox Church, Patriarchate of Alexandria, which has a small presence in Ethiopia. They do not represent any of the churches you mentioned.
Concerned Person12/7/2021 5:14 pm
I am sick and tired of this website speaking of The Coptics/Armeninians/Syriojacobsites and Ethiopisns as "Orthodox Christians" you should know if youran Orthofox Christian that those Churches are HERETICS AND HAVE BEEN AND "STILL SRE" excommunicated for over 1500 years
Lamesgin8/19/2021 7:32 am
This is a pervasive pain. I am an Ethiopian orthodox christian, who have been nurtured by its dogma with the Nicene creed as its pillar and ecclesiastical worship life. Our chucrch have been doing what you have mentioned for the past 1700 years and above. If you know the EOTC, it is all colorful, very dogmatic and liturgical that anyone who sees her, would love and succumbed to her. The church has more than 14 Divine liturgy texts, believed to be written by the Fathers like st Basil the great, St John Chrysostom and many others including local church Saints and Scholars of the 13th and 14th century. What I was reading the posts on orthochristian.com was not because I am in a heretic sect and to get the truth from yours, but to get many spiritual posts that are useful for any spiritual orthodox christian. Eventhough I am uneducated layman member of the church and the post I am writing here doesnot describe her fully, I am here to defend your opinion by mere zealous. I also believe that the differences we have are very limited and we have so much in common to work together rather than considering the other side as heathen, illiterate and far from the church mystical life.
Maximos4/14/2021 4:03 am
Brother Henok, welcome to Hellenic supremacy! You will now learn that the Greeks consider themselves the sole arbitrators of truth, even though they are the most ecumenistic, modern and liberal of all Orthodox local Churches!
Henok 2/19/2021 12:40 am
This is very disrespectful for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (to translate Nicene creed?) Really? Don’t you guys know the first Bishop for Ethiopia is ordained by St. Athanasius Himself (The spokesman for the council of Nicaea) You should ask what is translated and what is not before treating Ethiopian Church as a new convert to Orthodoxy. Your page had so many Ethiopian readers. Don’t disappoint them in this disrespect way.
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