List of the Patriarchs of Ethiopia

The list includes the heads of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church , one of the Oriental Orthodox Churches , officiating as Patriarchs since 1959 .

Bishops of Aksum

• Abune Selama I. Kesatay Birhan (St. Frumentius), (approx. 305 – approx. 350)
• Minas
• Abreham
• Petros
• Abba Afse
• Qozmos
• Euprepius (6th century)

Metropolitan of Ethiopia

Copts usually sent to Ethiopia from Egypt.

• Qerellos (620 – approx. 650)
• unknown ...
• Johannes (approx. 820-840)
• Ya'eqob I.
• Salama II. Za-'Azéb
• Bartholomäus (around 900)
• Petros (920)
  • Minas
  • Fiqtor
• vacant approx. 940 – approx. 970
• Daniel
• Fiqtor (around 1000)
• 'Abdun
• Sawiros (1077-1092)
• Giyorgis I (around 1090)
• Michael I.
• Ya'eqob II.
• Gabra Krestos
• Atnatewos (12th century)
• unknown ...
• Michael II of Fuwa (1206-1209)
  • Hirun
• Yeshaq (approx. 1209-1225)
• Giyorgis II (ca.1225)
• Tekle Haimanot ...
• Salāmā II. The translator (approx. 1348-1388)
• Bartalomēwos (1398–1438 (?); † 1447)
  • Mikā'ēl, Bishop of Sandafā (Lower Egypt) (1424–1441) with Gābre'ēl

vacant (1458-1481)

• unknown ...

Johannes Bermudes († 1570, pseudo-patriarch), successor: Nunez de Barreto (1554–1561, never arrived in Ethiopia)

• Yosab II (1547-)
• Simon (1607–1622), † 1624
• Afonzo Mendes SJ (1622-1632)

Union with the Catholic Church between 1624 and 1632

• unknown ...
• Christodoulos II (1662–1672)
• Shenouda (around 1686)
• Markos (1692–?)
• Markos X. (1694-1716)
• vacant 1716 - approx. 1718
• Christodoulos III. (approx. 1718–1745)
• vacant 1745 – approx. 1747
• John XIV. (Approx. 1747–1770)
• Yosab III. (1770–1803)
• vacant 1803 – approx. 1808
• Makarios (ca.1808)
• vacant approx. 1808–1816
• Cyril III (1816-1829)
• vacant 1829–1841
• Salama III. (1841-1866)
• vacant 1866–1868
• Athanasios (1868–1876)
• Petros VII (1876–1889), † 1918
• Matthew X. (1889–1926)
• Kyrillos (Kerlos) IV. (1926 - expelled 1936; † October 22, 1950)
  • Abraham (1937–1939) (Ethiopian)
  • John XV (1939–1945) (Ethiopian)
• Kyrillos (Kerlos) IV. (1945) (again)
• Baslios (1945–1959), becomes Primate of Ethiopia (1950) and then Patriarch (1959)

Patriarch of Ethiopia

• Baslios (1959-1970)
• Theophilos (1971–1976), † 1979
• Tekle Haimanot (1976-1988)
• Merkorios (1988-1991)
• Paulos (1992-2012)
• Mathias (since 2013)

Web links

• Non-Chalcedonian Churches. In: Ecclesiarchs. Archived from the original on May 31, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anaïs Wion: Les documents copto-arabes dans les archives chrétiennes d'Éthiopie: de rares témoins de l'autorité épiscopale (XIVe-XVe s.) In: Afriques [Online], 08 | 2017, Online since December 28, 2017. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/afriques/2021 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/afriques.2021 .