Ethiopic Catholic Metropolitanate of Addis Abeba
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Metropolitan Archeparchy of Addis Ababa Neanthopolitanus |
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| Location | |
| Country |  Ethiopia |
| Ecclesiastical province | Addis Ababa |
| Metropolitan | Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel |
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| Denomination | Ethiopian Catholic |
| Rite | Ge'ez Rite |
| Established | 1961 |
| Cathedral | Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Metropolitan | Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Lisane-Christos Matheos Semahun |
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The Ethiopian Catholic Archeparchy of Addis Ababa, officially the Metropolitan sui iuris Archeparchy of Addis Ababa (Latin: Metropolitana sui iuris archieparchia Neanthopolitana) is the metropolitan see of the Ethiopian Catholic Church, a sui iuris metropolitan Eastern Catholic Church.
The cathedral of the see is the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the national capital Addis Ababa.
It has three suffragan eparchies. Also in Ethiopia are nine Latin jurisdictions (Apostolic Vicariates and Apostolic Prefectures), which, not being of diocesan rank, are not organized as parts of an ecclesiastical province and are instead immediately subject to the Holy See. The Ethiopian Catholic Church reports to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, while the Latin jurisdictions depend on the missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The Catholics in the Latin jurisdictions are about six times as numerous as those in the Ethiopic jurisdictions.
Unlike some other countries, where jurisdictions of the Latin Church and of one or more Eastern Catholic Churches overlap, all ecclesiastical jurisdictions in Ethiopia are geographically distinct and each territory has a single hierarch or ordinary. All the hierarchs and ordinaries are members of the interritual Episcopal Conference, which until the foundation of the Eritrean Catholic Church in 2015 also counted the Eritrean hierarchy as members and, from the 1993 declaration of the independence of Eritrea until 2015, was called the Episcopal Conference of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The episcopal conference is now again named without mention of Eritrea.
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