Abuna vs Abura - What's the difference?
abuna | abura |
(Christianity) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 242:
As a proper noun abuna
is a river in northeastern bolivia that forms part of its border with brazil or abuna can be the title of the leader, or patriarch, of the (ethiopian orthodox church) .As a noun abura is
a medium-sized tropical african tree, .abuna
English
Alternative forms
* abunNoun
(en noun)- Around these leaders are still numerous hereditary dynasties of non-monastic clergy who, over the centuries, might swarm in their thousands to seek ordination on the abun ’s rare visits to their area.