Gabra Maśiḥ
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
monastic: ገብረ፡ መሢሕ፡↗ normalized: Gabra Maśiḥ↗ ʾabbā role: title ↗
Birth
He was born at Tǝgrāy↗ in 1419.
Period of Activity
He was the disciple of ʾabbā role: title ʾAbakarazun↗ , the leader of Stephanites↗ , whom he succeeded as the head of the monastery of Gunda Gunde↗ in 1476. He held this position during the reign of King ʾƎskǝndǝr↗ , King Nāʿod↗ , King Lǝbna Dǝngǝl↗ and the metropolitans Yǝsḥaq (II)↗ and Mārqos [I]↗ . He was succeeded by ʾabbā role: title Habta Śǝllāse↗ .
Death
He died in 1522.
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Names
- monastic: ገብረ፡ መሢሕ፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Dates
Birth: 1419
Period of activity: 1476–1522
Death: 1522
Occupation
abbot
Residence
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Editions Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Editions Bibliography
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Getatchew Haile 2011. A History of the First Ǝsṭifanosite Monks, ed. Getatchew Haile, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 635, Scriptores Aethiopici, 112 (Lovanii: In aedibus Peeters, 2011).
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Daqiqa ʾEsṭifānos. Getatchew Haile 2004. ደቂቃ፡ እስጢፋኖስ፡ በሕግ፡ አምላክ፡ (ትርጕም፡) Däqiqa ʾƎsṭifānos: Bä-ḥǝgg ʾAmlak (Tǝrgwem) (Koleǧvil, Minisota: Getatchew Haile (1996 EC), 2004).
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Getatchew Haile 2006. The Gǝʿǝz Acts of Abba Ǝsṭifanos of Gwǝndagwǝnde (Text), ed. Getatchew Haile, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 619, Scriptores Aethiopici, 110 (Lovanii: In aedibus Peeters, 2006).
Secondary Bibliography
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Beylot, R. 1991. ‘Les Actes de Gabra Masiḥ I (ca 1419-1522) troisiéme chef du mouvement stéphanite’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 35 (1991), 5–11 (DOI: 10.2307/41299941).
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Kaplan, S. 2005. ‘Gäbrä Mäśiḥ I’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 623b.
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Kaplan, S. 1984. The monastic holy man and the christianization of early Solomonic Ethiopia, Studien zur Kulturkunde, 73 (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1984). page 42, 103
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 6.10.2016
- 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
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