Classic DACB Collection

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Krestos-Mo’a

1200s-1300s
Orthodox Church
Ethiopia

Krestos-Mo’a, Abba (perhaps fl. late 13th -14th century A.D.), was a monk and one of the disciples of St. Täklä-Haymanot who were reputed to have been “strenuous in their contendings.”

Richard K. P. Pankhurst

Bibliography

E. A. Wallis Budge,* The Life and Miracles of Takla Haymânôt *(London, 1906), 218.

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.