1965 Addis Ababa Conference |
What makes this historic conference so unique is these sister churches had their last common council at Ephesus in 431 A.D. After 15 centuries of mutual isolation, they met in Addis Ababa in 1965. This page is dedicated to all those who took the initiative to organize that historical meeting and worked so hard to achive it's objective! |
His Beatitude
Abune Theophilos
Chairman of the Programme committee |
His Excellnecy
Ato Abebe Retta, Secretary General of the Conference |
His Excellnecy
Balamberas Maheteme Selassie, Chairman of the Reception Committee |
H.I.M Haile
Selassie Opening the Conference |
The heads
of the Oriental Churches at the conference |
The heads
of the Oriental Churches at the conference |
His Holiness
Abune Basilios |
His Holiness
Catholicos Khoren I |
His Holiness
Anba Kyrillos |
His Holiness
Moran Mar Basilios Augen |
His Holiness
Moran Mar Ignatius Yacub III |
His Holiness
Vasken I |
His grace Abune Theophilos |
The 1965 conference report in English (click to read)
The 1965 conference summary in Amharic (click to read)