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Suffragan eparchy Bahir Dar–Dessie, Ethiopia

Diocese of Bahir Dar–Dessie

Bahirdardessien(sis)

Alexandrian tradition

The Eparchy of Bahir Dar-Dessie is an Alexandrian (Ge'ez) rite eparchy of the Ethiopian Catholic Church, erected on 19 January 2015 as a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Addis Abeba. It has been led by Eparch Lisane-Christos Matheos Semahun since its erection. Note: provided as Latin rite but it is in fact an Ethiopic-rite eparchy.

On the map

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Bahir Dar–Dessie, Ethiopia, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
2015
Catholics
17,544
Priests
28
Territory
221,776 km²

Parishes and churches

14 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Eparch
Lisane-Christos Matheos Semahun

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The cathedral

Cathedral of Egziabher Ab, Bahir Dar stands in Bahir Dar–Dessie, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

One of three suffragan eparchies in the province of the Metropolitan Ethiopian Catholic Archeparchy of Addis Abeba, which covers all Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Catholic Eparchy of Bahir Dar-Dessie (Bahir Dar-Dessie of the Ethiopics) is an Eastern Catholic diocese. That province comprises the entire Ethiopian Catholic Church sui iuris, which follows the Alexandrian Rite in the liturgical Ge'ez language; the eparchy nevertheless depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

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