Classic DACB Collection
All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.Giyorgis (Abuna)
Giyorgis, *Abunä *, was a Metropolitan of Ethiopia, probably a successor of *Abunä * Yeshaq. He was in office in 1225, and one tradition has it that in his time, in the reign of Emperor Lalibäla, the *Kebrä Nägäst *(“Glory of Kings”) was brought to Ethiopia.
A. K. Irvine
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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.
