Stefanites

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The Stefanites ( Daqiqa Estifānos ) are a monastic community within the Ethiopian Orthodox Church .

It was founded in 1428 by Estifānos (~ 1397 to 1476) in Tigray . Initially suspicious of the imperial court and the major Ethiopian church for political and religious reasons and persecuted for a long time, the head of the monastery, Gabra Masih, brought peace and recognition to his monastery association around 1514 with an orthodox creed.

literature

  • Taddesse Tamrat: Some notes on the 15th cent. Stephanite "heresy" in the Ethiopian Church . In: Rassegna di Studi Etiopici . 22nd volume. Rome 1966, p. 103-115 .
  • R. Beylot: Une episode de l'histoire ecclesiastique de l'Éthiopie. Le mouvement stéphanite . In: Annales d'Éthiopie . 8th volume, 1970, pp. 103-116 .
  • R. Beylot: Estifanos, hétérodoxe ethiopia du 15e siècle . In: Revue d'Histoire des Religions . tape 197 , 1981, pp. 279-284 .
  • Getatchew Haile: The cause of the ∃ stifanosites . In: Paideuma . 29th volume, 1983, pp. 93-119 .