Yāʿqob
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ያዕቆብ፡ Yāʿqob ʾabuna role: title
Period of Activity
He was a 14th century metropolitan of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church who arrived in 1337 during the reign of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon I . He was the successor of ʾabuna Yoḥannǝs II . His name appears in five hagiographies of medieval saints including Gadla Baṣalota Mikāʾel, Gadla Filǝṗṗos (za-Dabra Libānos),Gadla ʾAnorewos , Gadla ʾAron (za-Dabra Dāret) and Gadla Sāmuʾel (Dabra Wagag). He was devoted together with some of the leaders of the local monasticism to evangelize the non-Christian regions of Šawā↗ , Faṭagār↗ , Waǧ↗ ,Dāmot↗ , Ǝnnāryā↗ and Ifāt↗ . He was in conflict with King ʾAmda Ṣǝyon I because of his marriage with the wife of his father. Finally, he was expelled to Egypt in around 1345.
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Names
- birth: ያዕቆብ፡ gez
- ʾabuna role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1337–1345
Occupation
metropolitan
Faith
Coptic
Nationality
Egypt
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Brita, A. 2014. ‘Yaʿǝqob’, in A. Bausi and S. Uhlig, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, V (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), 5b–6a.
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Tedeschi, S. 1991. ‘Ethiopian Prelates’, in A. S. Atiya, ed., The Coptic Encyclopedia, IV (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991), 1008b–1009a. page 1011
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻYāʿqobʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2017-10-21) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS10200Yaeqob [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Corrections on 21.10.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 6.9.2016
- 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
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