Patriarchs Of Ethiopia

Patriarchs of Tawahedo Church

Bishops of Axum

• Abune Selama I Kesatay Birhan (St. Frumentios), (c. 305-mid 300's)
• Minas
• Abreham (late 300's-early 400's )
• Petros
• Abba Afse (late 400's-early 500's)
• Qozmos (fl. early 500's)
• Euprepius (fl. early 500's )

Metropolitans of Ethiopia

• Qerellos (620's-mid 600's)

• Yohannes (c. 820-840)
• Ya'eqob I (fl. mid 800's)
• Slama II Z-'Azb (fl. 800's)
• Brtlomwos (fl. 900's)
• Petros (920's) opposed by...
• Minas and...
• Fiqtor
• (vacant c. 940-970's)
• Daniel (fl. late 900's)
• Fiqtor (fl. 1000's)
• 'Abdun
• Sawiros (1077-1092)
• Giyorgis I (fl. 1090's)
• Mikael I (fl. early-mid 1100's)
• Ya'eqob II
• Gabra Krestos
• Atnatewos (fl. late 1100's)

• Mikael II of Fuwa (1206-1209) opposed by...
• Hirun (pretender)
• Yeshaq (c. 1209-1225)
• Giyorgis II (fl. c. 1225)
• Tekle Haimanot (fl. 1200's )

• John Bermudez (fl. c. 17th cent.), Catholic appointed metropilitan, did not take office
• Simon (1607-1622), died 1624
• Afonzo Mendes (1622-1632), Catholic appointed metropilitan, deposed

• Marqos X (1694-1716)
• (vacant 1716-c. 1718)
• Krestodolo III (c. 1718-1745)
• (vacant 1745-c. 1747)
• Yohannese XIV (c. 1747-1770)
• Yosab III (1770-1803)
• (vacant 1803-c. 1808)
• Makarios (fl. c. 1808)
• (vacant c. 1808-1816)
• Kyrillos III (1816-1829)
• (vacant 1829-1841)
• Selama III (1841-1866)
• (vacant 1866-1868)
• Atanasios (1868-1876)
• Petros VII (1876-1889), died 1918
• Mattheos X (1889-1926)
• Kyrillos (Kerlos) IV (1926-1936), deposed
• Abraham (1936-1939)
• Yohannis (Yohannese) XV (1939-1945), opposed by...
• Kyrillos (Kerlos) IV (1945), restored
• Baslios (1945-1959), became Primate of Ethiopia (1950) then Patriarch, see below...

Patriarchs of Ethiopia (1959)

• Baslios (1951-1970)
• Theophilos (1971-1976), died 1979
• Tekle Haimanot (1976-1988)
• Merkurios (1988-present), continuing in exile 1991, opposed by...
• Paulos (1992-present), recognized in Ethiopia and by the Coptic Church of Alexandria.

See also

• Tawahedo Church
• Oriental Orthodoxy
• Coptic Christianity
• List of Coptic Popes

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