Wikipedia's article on the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, community-edited. Reliable for the church's formal establishment on 21 January 1959 in Addis Ababa, its membership figures across the twenty-first century, 5,279,822 in 2009 rising to roughly 12,000,000 by 2023, and its own description as the largest member church of the Lutheran World Federation and the largest Lutheran body in Africa.
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PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Evangelical_Church_Mekane_Yesus
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1959 founding date and the 2009 to 2023 membership figures, both stated plainly in the article's own text. NotesUsed for the founding and explosive growth of the largest Lutheran church in Africa.
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