Volume 8, Number 1

Tradition on Saint Mark the Evangelist in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

  Authors

Andualem Ermias Gebremariam, Holy Trinity University, Ethiopia

  Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe the tradition of Saint Mark the Evangelist. Mark isregarded as one of the Four Evangelists, and the Seventy or Seventy-Two Disciples of Jesus Christ in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church tradition.Regarding the administrative hierarchy, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s ecclesiastical tradition was strongly connected to the See of St Mark the Evangelist for a long time. St Mark, whose sir name is John, is the author to whom the second Gospel is traditionally ascribed, andseveral Churches are dedicated to him in the country. In the iconographic tradition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, he is painted as an author seated before a desk and engaged in composing his book, accompanied by a winged lion.

  Keywords

Tradition, Mark the Evangelist, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Portrait, GospelandIconography.