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- ↑ "Ethiopie: Retour du patriarche orthodoxe Abune Merkorios après 27 ans d'exil". August 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-04-21.
- ↑ "Exiled Ethiopian church convenes in Oakland". 19 May 2014. Archived from the original on 2021-09-19.