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310 Ethiopic Church under the Patriarch of Alexandra. The Patriarch treats him just like his other Metropolitans, sends him

FIG. 10. — THE ABYSSINIAN PRIMATE, ABŪNA MATEWOS.

Paschal letters, as to the others, and considers Abyssinia simply as one more province of his patriarchate. Abūna is never very popular among his people. He is a foreigner; the language, liturgy, customs are strange to him. We said that he can ordain other bishops. There is some complication about this. The old law exists still in theory; he may ordain not more than seven suffragans (p. 300, n. 1). But constantly it transpires that there are no suffragans at all; so that some writers state as a general fact