Classic DACB Collection
All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.Yohannes / Johannes
Yohannes or Johannes, Bishop, was almoner of the Church of St. John in Alexandria. According to the story of Emperor Aidog, when the Emperor of Ethiopia defeated the ruler of Himyar, he requested a bishop for his country, and the lot fell to Yohannes, then, in c. 525 A.D., a man of sixty-two years. It seems likely, however, that he was in fact sent to Himyar.
A. K. Irvine
Bibliography
John of Ephesus, apud Chronicon Pseudo-Dionysianum, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores syri, series tertia (Paris, 1933), Vol. II, 54.
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.
