St. George Cathedral’s Sunday School is one of the pioneers of higher Sunday School education in the country. The Gente Tsige youth association was established along with a few Sunday Schools around the city in the early years of 1940’s. After His Holiness Abba Tewophlos, the second Patriarch of Ethiopia started a systemized & centralized parish administration structure in the late 1970’s, our sunday school organized its resources and started teaching continuous sunday school education. In addition, our Sunday school assisted other Churches in Addis Ababa establish their Sunday school programs.
As the years went by, the number of students and members also grew tremendously. Although the large numbers are exhilarating, it also comes with it’s own challenges. The major problem was the lack of space for lecture rooms, libraries, children training center, rehearsal rooms and so forth.
Although there were stern financial challenges, due to the unity and hard work of former and present members of our Sunday school, we were able to lay a foundation stone of the new multipurpose building in September, 2007. His Holiness Abba Paulos, the fifth Patriarch of Ethiopia was present at the foundation stone laying ceremony.
Although we initially planned to complete the new building within four years, it took a little over eleven years to finish the three story multipurpose facility. The new building was inaugurated just last January, 2019 by His Holiness Abba Mathias I, the sixth Patriarch of Ethiopia.
The blood, sweat and tears our members poured into this project for the past eleven years is a testimony that St. George Sunday School is indeed a HOME where our hearts always continue to dwell. We specifically want to recognize our members at home for their resilience and utmost dedication to ensure this project was complete.
St. George Sunday school taught and continues to teach the holy gospel, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Dogma, Canons, Ge’ez (Ethiopic), Hymns of St. Yared and church musical instruments for thousands of believers throughout Ethiopia for a little over five decades.
