Terms vs Echage - What's the difference?
terms | echage |
(Christianity) The chief official in the monastic system of Ethiopia.
*1972 , Donald Crummey, Priests and Politicians :
*:Security in Gondar depended largely on the sanctity of the echage ’s quarter as a place of asylum.
*2002 , (Haggai Erlich), The Cross and the River , p. 117:
*:The emperor sent an evasive reply and, upon crossing the border, made sure that the echage (the head of Ethiopia's monastic system) marched on his right.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 281:
*:Täklä Haymanot was the first in a series of monks to become a key figure at Court, as the Echage (e?ägé ).
