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E period, who opposed the systems of
thiopia is one of the world’s an-
oppression,when confronted with the
cient civilizations and historical
development, in which Ethiopian question of their identity, they
hadrecourse to the Holy Bible which
Orthodox Christianity has played a
states that man was made in the im-
major role in shaping the culture,
tradition and history of Ethiopia. age and likeness of God. They,
therefore, determined that they ought
representations in Ethiopia to Em-
peror Haile Selassie I and the Patri-
arch then, Abuna Basilios.Mr
Springer left Trinidad in August
1952 by ship and then by road to
Ethiopia, not knowing where he was
going but with great determination
to bring spiritual enlightenment to
the Caribbean.

not to adopt the image of their colo- The Emperor and the church lead-
The Ethiopian Orthodox Christian
faith has been deeply rooted nial masters and searched for spiri- ers,after listening to the request of
in Ethiopia since biblical the delegation decided to
times. The Kebra Nagast send Abba Gebreeyesus
Meshesha, an Ethiopian
ክብረ ነገሥት (The Glory of
monk, accompanied by Ato
Kings), to which is linked
the introduction of Judaism Abera Jembere as an inter-
to this ancient Ethiopian preter to Trinidad. They
literature and culture landed in Trinidad on the
16th December 1952.
through the historical events
Trinidad therefore, became
of the birth of Menelik I,
Son of Solomon, King of the first country outside of
Israel and Makeda, the Ethiopia and Jerusalem
Queen of Sheba, of Ethio- where the Ethiopian Ortho-
dox Tewahedo Church was
pia as well as the Ark of the
established. Abba Mesh-
Covenant, which was
brought to Ethiopia from esha remained as a mis-
Jerusalem. Abuna Thaddaeus and members of the clergy in Trinidad and Tobago sionary and Ato Jembere
returned to Ethiopia. Later,
tual enlightenment in Ethiopia. Soon Abba Meshesha returned to Ethiopia
During the Pan Africanism era in
thereafter, Mr Cecil Garnet Springer, and was consecrated as a Bishop,
the Caribbean,Jamaican Marcus
Garvey and Trinidadian George Pad- a member of Garvey’s movement, Abuna Athanasius, the first bishop
more, two Caribbean philosophical was sent by a local church commit- of the EOTC in the Western Hemi-
and spiritual leaders in the colonial tee in Trinidad to Ethiopia to make sphere including the Americas.

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