Bāsǝlyos
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
given: ባስልዮስ፡↗ normalized: Bāsǝlyos↗ given: ባስልዎስ፡↗ normalized: Bāsǝlwos↗ alt: ገብረ፡ ጊዮርጊስ፡↗ normalized: Gabra Giyorgis↗ ʾabuna role: title ↗
Birth
1883
Period of Activity
He was an outstanding church scholar, administrator and the first Ethiopian Patriarch. He was ordained priest in 1914. In 1934, he was made ʾǝč̣č̣age role: title ↗ becoming the 59th abbot of Dabra Libānos↗ . During the Italian invasion he was in exile in Jerusalem↗ and later after the liberation he returned back to Ethiopia. In 1949, he was consecrated as a bishop in Alexandria↗ . In 1956, following the death of Qerǝllos↗ ʾabuna role: title Bāsǝlyos ↗ became the first Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tawāḥǝdo Church.
Death
He died at ʾAddis ʾAbabā↗ in 1970.
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Names
- given: ባስልዮስ፡ gez
- given: ባስልዎስ፡ gez
- alt: ገብረ፡ ጊዮርጊስ፡ gez
- ʾabuna role: title
Dates
Birth: 1883
Period of activity: 1914–1970
Death: 1970
Occupation
Patriarch
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Bairu Tafla 2003. ‘Basǝlyos’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 495b–496b.
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Beiʾde Maryam 1982. Die Geschichte der äthiopischen Patriarchen von 1926 bis zur Gegenwart Heidelberg (1982).
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻBāsǝlyosʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 3.5.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS2533Baselyos [Accessed: 2024-04-30+02:00]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 3.5.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
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