Yoḥannǝs III
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ዮሐንስ፡ Yoḥannǝs III ʾAbuna role: title
Period of Activity
He was a metropolitan of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church who was consecrated by the Coptic Patriarch John XVII and succeeded ʾabuna Krǝstodolu III in 1744. He was a contemporary of ʾaṣe ʾIyāsu II and ʾaṣe ʾIyoʾas I . He was succeeded eight years later by ʾabuna Yosāb II in 1770.
Death
He died on 15 November 1761 and was buried at ʾAṣṣāṣāme Qǝddus Mikāʾel↗ .
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Names
- birth: ዮሐንስ፡ gez
- ʾAbuna role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1744–1761
Death: 1761
Occupation
Metropolitan
Residence
Faith
Coptic
Nationality
Egypt
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Raineri, O. 2014. ‘Yoḥannǝs [III]’, in A. Bausi and S. Uhlig, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, V (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), 71b–72a.
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Crummey, D. 1972. Priests and Politicians: Protestant and Catholic missions in Orthodox Ethiopia, 1830 - 1868 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972). page 20-24
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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 1028b-1030a
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Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: some changes on 23.2.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 14.9.2016
- 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
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Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor