About Mahibere Kidusan
Name
The association was named Mahibre Kidusan (an association in the name of Saints) Saints would be commemorated in that they abounded the secular world and sacrificed their lives to the orthodox belief for whom the prophets prophesized and apostles evangelized.
History
In 1977 E.C (Ethiopian Calendar) few students of higher education initiated the youth in the compass to become members of Sunday school and know the teachings of the churches. Later, this effort had been strengthened by students trained in the Zeaway Hamere Berehan St.Gebreil Clergy Training Monastery by the Then Arch Bishop of Shewa Abune Gorgorious II.
The movements continued in Bilatie military camp that brought all students of higher institutions in the country in 1983 E.C after a year, with the blessing of the church fathers the associations was set up by the name “Mahibre Kidusan” under the Sunday School Department of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Since then the associations has been proving spiritual service.
Vision
“Envisioning the Church fulfill its universal leadership role.”
Mission
Fructify and procure an organized, whole, eloquent, moderate, versatile and leader generation who strives in achieving the church’s mission and diligently work for her existence.
Institutional Asset
OBJECTIVES
Stand
The association shall not interfere in administrative affairs of the church and it is free from and political affiliation.
Membership
- Disciples who trained in various training institution of the church and providing ministerial activity.
- Higher institution students attending Sunday in their respective parishes.
- Member of Sunday school or/and parish that provide spiritual service after graduating from higher institution.
- The laity who support the objective of the association with their knowledge, money and labor.
Structure
Mahiber Kidusan is set under the Sunday School department of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. It provides spiritual services by its sub centers in the dioceses all over the country and in the Diaspora.


The Commemoration of the Lord’s Crucifixion
The blessed day, where the eternal Lord’s Crucifixion is commemorated, Jesus Christ Incarnate, to Him, is the Glory, for the salvation of the world. Holy Bible states it as, “From the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land.” (Matthew 27:45) That day, at the ninth hour, the sun had hidden its light, the moon bled, the starts had fallen and dead people had risen from the grave, when they saw their creator incarnated, hanging with His own free will on the wood of the Cross, inclined His head, and yielded up His spirit.
Patristic fathers teach us, “His Divinity parted not from His Humanity for a single moment, nor a twinkle of an eye, and He descended to the hades from the cross to save those in bondage therein.”The Apostle Saint Peter has also said, “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison.” (1 Peter 3:18-19)
Abune Abib
Abba Bula, who was surnamed ‘Abib departed on Tikmet 25. His name meaning Bula “servant of God” and Abib to mean “Father of Many.”
The influence of unemployment and resolutions
Unemployment, also known as joblessness is seen as a “disruption to an individual’s God-given calling or vocation.” The Book of Genesis states primarily “And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.” (Genesis 3:17) Holy Orthodox Incarnation has the moral obligation in creating environment for the vocation to be fulfilled.
Archdeacon and Protomartyr Saint Stephen
The Archdeacon and Protomartyr Stephen was the eldest of the seven deacons, appointed by the Apostles themselves, on Tikmet 17, to oversee charity in the early Jerusalem church, according to the “Book of Acts.” Therefore, he is called “archdeacon.”
Abune Aragawi of Dabra Damo
On blessed and holiday Tikmet 14, our holy Father Aragawi, who is surnamed ZaMikael disappeared. This holy man became a guide to the servants of God on the road. He went up to the holy Dabra Damo holding the tail of a serpent, and there he fought countless noble fights.