Classic DACB Collection

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

Yohanni

500s
Ancient Christian Church
Ethiopia

Yohanni, Abba, was a monk who came from Egypt in the time of Emperor Kaléb and founded the monastery of Däbrä Sina in Sänhit.

A. K. Irvine


Bibliography

C. Conti Rossini, “Il Gadla Libänos,”* Ricordi di un soggiorno in Eritrea* (Asmara, 1903), III.


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.