Classic DACB Collection
All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.Gabra-Krestos
Gäbrä-Krestos, Abunä (? perhaps fl. c. 12th century A.D.), is said to have been a Metropolitan of Ethiopia during the dynasty of the Zagwé, buried with three others in Bugena. The Ethiopic name perhaps replaced the original Coptic form.
A. K. Irvine
Bibliography
C. Conti Rossini, *Storia d’Etiopia *(Bergamo, 1928), 310.
H. Zotenberg, Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, 1877), 263.
This article is reproduced, with permission, from The Dictionary of Ethiopian Biography, Vol. 1 ‘From Early Times to the End of the Zagwé Dynasty c. 1270 A.D.,’ copyright © 1975, edited by Belaynesh Michael, S. Chojnacki and Richard Pankhurst, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. All rights reserved.
