| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eastern Churches |
 | | There is now only one bishop of Abyssinia (there were once two) who is called Abuna (Our Father) and resides at Adeva (the old see of Axum). |
 | | He is always a Coptic monk consecrated and sent by the Coptic patriarch. |
 | | It does not seem, however, that there is now much communication between Cairo and Adeva, though the patriarch still has the right of deposing the Abuna. |
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