Luthoricas opened this issue on Sep 17, 2002 ยท 4 posts
MisterDog posted Tue, 17 September 2002 at 10:26 PM
I suggest you might want to contact the Tawahedo Church (Ethiopian Orthodox Church), since about 50% of Ethiopia's population is Orthodox Christian. If anybody can get a translation for you, it would be they. The Parish of Our Savior in NYC can be contacted at 570 Riverside Drive, Suite 9380, New York, NY 10031-9380. A directory of several Ethiopian Orthodox parishes can be found at http://www.eotc.faithweb.com/dire.html Your organization is, of course, sensitive to the ancient and revered place Ethiopian Orthodoxy has within Ethiopian culture (since roughly AD340 to the present day--yes, thats 340, not 1340). I do caution you, though. There are a lot of flakes and fakes who have adopted the name "Ethiopian Orthodox". Likewise, many Rastafarians claim they are "Ethiopian Orthodox", although Patriarch Paulos in Addis Ababa would certainly never recognize them as such--neither of these groups would likely know a bit of the languages you need.