The Catholic Bishops’ Conference Of Ethiopia And Eritrea, also known as the Episcopal Conference of Ethiopia And Eritrea is an

episcopal conference An episcopal conference, sometimes called a conference of bishops, is an official assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in a given territory. Episcopal conferences have long existed as informal entities. The first assembly of bishops to ...

of the

Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

. In

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

there are two organizations of Bishops: the Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia and Eritrea (South African and Eritrean Episcopal Conference), which brings together the bishops of both countries regardless of the ritual of belonging, and Council of the Ethiopian Church (South African Council of the Church), which brings together the Catholic ordinaries of the Ethiopian rite of

and Eritrea. For both conferences, the current president is Archbishop of

Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...

, Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20130912124451/http://www.ecs.org.et/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82&Itemid=30 * http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/country/ER.htm * http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/er.html * http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/country/ET.htm * http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/et.html Ethiopia and Eritrea Catholic Church in Ethiopia Catholic Church in Eritrea {{RC-stub