Giyorgis II
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ጊዮርጊስ፡↗ normalized: Giyorgis II↗ ʾabuna role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was a bishop of Zāgʷe period during the reign of ʾaṣe role: title Lālibalā↗ who was consecrated by the then Egyptian patriarch John VI↗ in 1215. His name appears in the colophon of Kǝbra nagaśt which states that the work had first been translated from Coptic into Arabic in the year 1224-1225 during the reign of ʾaṣe role: title Lālibalā↗ and the metropolitanate Giyorgis↗ . He was the successor of bishop Yǝsḥaq I↗ . (internal)
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Names
- birth: ጊዮርጊስ፡ gez
- ʾabuna role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1215
Occupation
metropolitan
Faith
Coptic
Nationality
Egypt
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Van Donzel, E. 2005. ‘Giyorgis’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 810a–811a.
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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 1008b-1009a
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻGiyorgis IIʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2016-09-05) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS4701Giyorgis [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 5.9.2016
- 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