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THE LESSER EASTERN CHURCHES
Ethiopic Church under the Patriarch of Alexandra. The Patriarch treats him just like his other Metropolitans, sends him
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FIG. 10. — THE ABYSSINIAN PRIMATE, ABŪNA MATEWOS.
Paschal letters, as to the others, and considers Abyssinia simply as one more province of his patriarchate.[1] Abūna is never very popular among his people. He is a foreigner; the language, liturgy, customs are strange to him. We said that he can ordain other bishops. There is some complication about this. The old law exists still in theory; he may ordain not more than seven suffragans (p. 300, n. 1). But constantly it transpires that there are no suffragans at all; so that some writers state as a general fact
- ↑ Renaudot: loc. cit. i. 419.
