Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church

Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church is a Eritrean Orthodox church at 780 54th Street in Oakland, CA 94609. It is one of 485 churches in Oakland.

780 54th Street, Oakland, CA, 94609

Website: https://eritreantewahdo.org/

Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church is part of the Oriental Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 47 congregations of the Oriental Orthodox family gather across California — 245 across the United States on The Church Map.

The Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian, and Syriac churches have held the faith under pressure longer than almost anyone — Ethiopia has worshiped Christ continuously since the fourth century, and the Armenian church has buried martyrs in nearly every generation since. Their endurance is a gift to a church that has grown used to comfort.

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The community around Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 37.5%
  • Depression: 23.1%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Oakland city is served by 272 churches — about one congregation for every 1,609 residents.

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