Sāwiros
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ሳዊሮስ፡↗ normalized: Sāwiros↗ birth: ሳዊሩስ፡↗ normalized: Sāwīrus↗ ʾabuna role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was the metropolitan of Ethiopia↗ who succceded Fiqṭor↗ , who was probably his uncle. He seems to have been grown in Ethiopia↗ and later returned to Egypt↗ and consecrated by Cyrill II↗ . He was successful in combatting the polygamous marital practices of the Ethiopian king and his subjects. His successor was Giyorgis↗ .
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Names
- birth: ሳዊሮስ፡ gez
- birth: ሳዊሩስ፡ gez
- ʾabuna role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1077–1092
Occupation
metropolitan
Faith
Coptic
Nationality
Egypt
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Nosnitsin, D. 2010. ‘Säwiros’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 565a–565b.
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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 1005a-1006a
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻSāwirosʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2016-10-07) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS8588Sawiros [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 7.10.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Solomon Gebreyes, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor