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{{Infobox Christian denomination|name=Christianity in Ethiopia and Eritrea|main_classification=[[Eastern Christianity]]|orientation=[[Oriental Orthodoxy]], [[Orthodox Tewahedo]], [[Protestantism]], [[Ethiopian-Eritrean Evangelicalism]], [[Evangelicalism]], [[Eastern Protestant Christianity]], [[Pentecostalism]], [[Lutheranism]], [[Baptists|Baptist]], [[Holiness Baptists]], [[Mennonite]]-[[Anabaptist]], [[Holiness movement]], [[Anglicanism|Anglican]], [[Methodism|Methodist]], [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]](contracted; show full)Lutheran denomination [[Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus]] alongside [[Gudina Tumsa]] and [[Emmanuel Abraham]]. Protestantism has had a presence in Eritrea for over 150 years much of which started when the [[Swedish Evangelical Mission]] (SEM) of the [[Church of Sweden]] first sent missionaries to preach to the [[Kunama people]] in 1866.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Andemariam|first=Senai W.|date=2012|title=The Story of the Translation of the Bible into Tǝgre|url=https://www.academia.edu/28063842
/The_Story_of_the_Translation_of_the_Bible_into_T%C7%9Dgre_1877_1988|journal=ITYOP̣IStyop̣is|volume=2|pages=62-–88|access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref> Between the late-19th and late-20th centuries, the SEM undertook the task of translating the [[Bible]] into various Eritrean languages<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Andemariam|first1=Senai W.|date=2013|title=Who should take the Credit for the Bible Translation Works   carried out in Eritrea?|journal=Aethiopica|issue=16|pages=102-–129}}</ref> and influenced churches like the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eritrea]]. The [[Eastern Mennonite Missions]] also played a role in spreading Mennonite Anabaptism which helped establish the [[Meserete Kristos Church]]. In 1951, Anna-Liisa and Sanfrid Mattson traveled from [[Finland]] to Ethiopia and established a Pentecostal [[Mission (station)|mission]] in [[Addis Ababa]], the country's capital. In 1960, a mission was created in [[Awasa]] by the [[Philadelphia Church Mission]] of the [[Swedish Pentecostal Movement]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Alvarsson|first=Jan-åke|title=Research on Pentecostalism in Sweden|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326296149_Research_on_Pentecostalism_in_Sweden/fulltext/5b44b32a458515b4f65fbdf5/Research-on-Pentecostalism-in-Sweden.pdf|journal=Approaching Religion|volume=5}}</ref>. Pentecostalism, during the 1960s, attracted many students,<!--Why?--> and the movement grew enough that the [[Full Gospel Believers Church]] (FBGC) was created in 1967.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|title=Writing Religious History: The Historiography of Ethiopian Pentecostalism|last=Haustein|first=Jörg|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2011|isbn=9783447065283|pages=14}}</ref> Pentecostal practices eventually affected other Prote(contracted; show full)d Eritrean Catholic Churches follow the [[Alexandrian Rite]] used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the [[Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria]], and the [[Coptic Catholic Church]]. As its liturgical language it employs [[Ge'ez language|Ge'ez]], a [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] language that fell out of daily use several centuries ago.
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