Classic DACB Collection

All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.

Gedewon

Alternate Names: Gédéwon
500s
Ancient Christian Church
Ethiopia

Gédéwon, Abba, was a kinsman and teacher of Saint Yaréd.

A. K. Irvine


Bibliography

C. Conti Rossini, Acta Yared et Pantalewon, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores aethiopici, series altera, t. XVII.


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.