List of Abunas of Ethiopia

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This is a list of The Abunas of Ethiopia, the spiritual head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. This church is one of the Oriental Orthodoxy communion, granted autocephalacy by the Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa.

Contents 1 Bishops of Axum 2 Metropolitan Archbishops of Axum and of All Ethiopia 3 Archbishops of Axum and Patriarch Catholicoi of All Ethiopia, since 1959 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Bishops of Axum

• Abune Selama I Kesatay Birhan (St. Frumentios), (c. 305-mid 300s)
• Minas
• Abreham (late 300s-early 400s )
• Petros
• Abba Afse (late 400s-early 500s)
• Qozmos (fl. early 500s)
• Euprepius (fl. early 500s )
  • vacant c.537-562^[1]

[edit] Metropolitan Archbishops of Axum and of All Ethiopia

• Qerellos (620s-mid 600s)

unknown

• Yohannes (c. 820-840)
• Yaqob I (fl. mid 800s)
• Salama Za-'Azeb (fl. 800s)
• Bartalomewos (fl. 900s)
• Petros (920s), opposed by Minas and Fiqtor
  • vacant c. 940-970s
• Daniel (fl. late 900s)
• Fiqtor (fl. 1000s)
• 'Abdun, claimant
• Sawiros (1077-1092)
• Giyorgis I (fl. 1090s)
• Mikael I (fl. early-mid 1100s)
• Yaqob II
• Gabra Krestos
• Atnatewos (fl. late 1100s)
• Mikael II of Fuwa (1206-1209), opposed by Hirun
• Yeshaq (c. 1209-1225)
• Giyorgis II (c.1225)
• Saint Tekle Haymanot (c. 1200s), according to tradition
• Yohannes (XIII ?) (fl. 1300s)
• Yaqob (III ?) (c.1337-1344)
  • vacant (1344-1348)
• Salama II (1348-1388)
• Bartalomewos (1398/9-1436)
• Mikael and Gabriel (1438-1458)
  • vacant (1458-1481)
• Yeshaq (1481-c.1520)
• Marqos (VII ?) (1481-c.1530)
• John Bermudez (c.1536-c.1545), self-proclaimed Ethiopian Orthodox Abuna, and Catholic Patriarch of Ethiopia and Alexandria
• Endyras (c.1545-?)
• Andre de Oviedo (1557-1577), Catholic bishop
• Petros (VI ?) (?-1606), killed in battle
• Simon (1607-1622), died 1624
• Alfonzo Mendez (1622-1632), Catholic Patriarch, deposed by Fasilides
  • vacant (1632-1633)
• Rezek (c.1634)
• Marqos (VIII ?) (c.1635)
• Krestodolos II (c.1640-1672), deposed
• Sinoda (1672-1687)
  • vacant (1687-1689)
• Marqos (IX ?) (1689-late 1600s)
• Abba Mikael (1640-1699)
• Marqos X (1694-1716)
  • vacant (1716-1718)
• Krestodolos III (c. 1718-1745)
  • vacant (1745-c. 1747)
• Yohannes XIV (c. 1747-1770)
• Yosab III (1770-1803)
  • vacant (1803-c. 1808)
• Makarios (fl. c. 1808)
  • vacant (c. 1808-1816)
• Kyrillos (Qerellos) III (1816-1829)
  • vacant (1829-1841)
• Salama III (1841-1866)
  • vacant (1866-1868)
• Atanasios (1868-1876)
• Petros VII (1876-1889), died 1918
• Mattheos X (1889-1926)
• Qerellos IV (1926-1936), deposed
• Abraham (1936-1939)
• Yohannes XV (1939-1945)
  • Qerellos IV (1945-1950), restored
• Basilios (1951-1959)

On 13 July 1948, the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Churches reached an agreement that led to the elevation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church to the rank of an Autonomous Church; allowing the Archbishop of Axum and of All Ethiopia to consecrate on his own bishops and metropolitans for the Ethipian Church and to form a local Holy Synod. The Archbishop, however, is consecrated by the Pope of Alexandria along with the members of the Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Then in 1959, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria granted the Autocephelacy to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and elevated the Archbishop to the Patriarchal dignity and was enthroned with the title of: Archbishop of Axum, Ishage (Supreme Abbot) and Patriarch and Re'ese Liqane Papasat Echege(Catholicos) of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

[edit] Archbishops of Axum and Patriarch Catholicoi of All Ethiopia, since 1959

• His Holiness Abune Basilios (1959-1970)
• His Holiness Abune Theophilos (1971-1976), died 1979
• His Holiness Abune Tekle Haymanot (1976-1988)
• His Holiness Abune Merkorios (1988 — 1991),
• His Holiness Abune Paulos (1991-present)

[edit] See also

• Abuna
• Coptic Christianity
• Oriental Orthodoxy
• Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

[edit] References

1. ^ Due to the exiling of Patriarch Theodosius I and his replacement with the Chalcedonian Patriarch Paul, according to an Arabic source. Sergew Hable Selassie, Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: United Printers, p.142.