Yǝsḥaq (II)
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ይስሐቅ፡↗ normalized: Yǝsḥaq (II)↗ ʾabuna role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was a metropolitan of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church who succeeded ʾabuna Gabrǝʾel↗ after a long vacancy of the Ethiopian Episcopal throne in 1481 and his tenure lasted to 1500. He arrived during the reign of King ʾƎskǝndǝr↗ in 1481 together with another Coptic bishop Mārqos [I]↗ . He played an important role for the development of Gǝʿǝz literature during his episcopate.
Death
He died during the first decade of the sixteenth century in the reign of King Nāʿod (ʾAnbasā Baḍar) ↗ and was buried at Bararā↗
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Names
- birth: ይስሐቅ፡ gez
- ʾabuna role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1481
Occupation
metropolitan
Faith
Coptic
Nationality
Egypt
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Ancel, S. 2014. ‘Yǝsḥaq’, in A. Bausi and S. Uhlig, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, V (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), 62b–63b.
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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 1015a-1016a
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻYǝsḥaq (II)ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2016-09-07) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS10350Yeshaq [Accessed: 2024-05-23]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 7.9.2016
- 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
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor