Catholic Ethiopian Rite

[work in progress]

Introduction

Aka Ge’ez Rite

Established by the Lazarist Giustino de Jacobis in the middle of the 19th century

The churches of the Ethiopian Oriental tradition comprise the

» Read introduction by Thomas M. Landy
» Read about zema chanting (by Thomas M. Landy)

Written liturgy

Video

publ. in 2014:

Further reading

Ayele Teklehaymanot. “The Struggle for the ‘Ethiopianization’ of the Roman Catholic Tradition,” in The Missionary Factor in Ethiopia: Papers from a Symposium on the Impact of European Missions on Ethiopian Society, Lund University, August 1996, edited by Getatchew Haile, Aasulv Lande, and Samuel Rubenson, p. 135‒54. Frankfurt, etc.: Peter Lang, 1998.

Bandrés Urdániz, José. A Glance behind the Curtain: Reflections on the Ethiopian Celebration of the Eucharist. Addis Ababa: Master Printing Press, 2008.

Fritsch, Emmanuel. The Liturgical Year of the Ethiopian Church: The Temporal: Seasons and Sundays (Ethiopian Review of Cultures, 9‒10 [special issue]). Addis Ababa: Master Printing Press, 2001.

Fritsch, Emmanuel, and Brendan Cogavin. The Ethiopian Rite Missal: For Weekday Celebrations of the Eucharist, with Seven Anaphoras – Ad Experimentum. Addis Ababa [no publisher or press mentioned], 2002.

Cross-references

» Catholic Western Rite

» Catholics in Ethiopia (introduction)