Yemrehana Krestos
Yemrehana Krestos | |
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King of Ethiopian Orthodox Church |
Yemrehana Krestos (
Reign
According to Taddesse Tamrat, he was the son of Germa Seyum, the brother of Tatadim; however the Italian scholar Carlo Conti Rossini published in 1902 a document that stated Yemrehana Krestos was the successor of Na'akueto La'ab, and succeeded by Yetbarak.[2] According to a manuscript Pedro Páez and Manuel de Almeida saw at Axum, he ruled for 40 years.[3]
A council presided over by Yemrehana Krestos condemned Syrian and Egyptian monks who taught that the body of
Accomplishments
Yemrehana Krestos constructed a lavish
Reputation
Some believe that he is the Ethiopian king who inspired the myth of
Francisco Alvarez stated that Yemrehana Krestos began the tradition of confining rival heirs to the Imperial throne at Amba Geshen, although this is disputed.[9]
References
- ^ a b Marrassini, Paolo. "Yəmrəḥannä Krəstos", Enyclopaedia Aethiopica: Y-Z, Vol. 5, edited by Alessandro Bausi and Siegbert Uhlig (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014), pp. 53-54
- ^ Quoted in E.A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 277
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 28 (1965), p. 8
- ^ Wallis Budge, E. A. (1928). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume 1). London: Methuen & Co. p. 154.
- ^ Balicka-Witakowska, Ewa, and Michael Gervers. "Yəmrəḥannä Krəstos." In Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: Y-Z: Vol. 5, edited by Alessandro Bausi and Siegbert Uhlig, 55-57. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014.
- David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 75ff
- ^ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. 61 n. 3.
- ^ Munro-Hay, Ethiopia, the unknown land: a cultural and historical guide (London: I.B. Tauris, 2002), p. 225
- G.W.B. Huntingford(Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1961), chapter 59.