This is a list of Patriarchs of Ethiopia : head patriarchs of the Tawahedo Church. This church is one of the Oriental Orthodoxy communion, autonomous to the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria.
Patriarchs of Tawahedo Church
Bishops of Axum
Metropolitans of Ethiopia
- Qerellos (620's-mid 600's)
unknown...
- Yohannes (c. 820-840)
- Ya'eqob I (fl. mid 800's)
- Sälama II Zä-'Azéb (fl. 800's)
- Bärtäloméwos (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)
unknown...
- Mikael II of Fuwa (1206-1209) opposed by...
- Hirun (pretender)
- Yeshaq (c. 1209-1225)
- Giyorgis II (fl. c. 1225)
- Tekle Haimanot (fl. 1200's )
unknown...
- 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
Between 1624-1632, Roman Catholicism is the state religion of Ethiopia, breaking away from Alexandria during this time.
unknown...
- 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
