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Abune Phillipos (27 September 1901 – 18 September 2002) was the first Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.[1]
Phillipos | |
|---|---|
| Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church | |
| Church | Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church |
| Installed | 7 May 1999 |
| Term ended | 27 September 2001 |
| Predecessor | Paulos (before autocephaly from Ethiopia) |
| Successor | Yacob |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 September 1901 Endadeko, Italian Eritrea |
| Died | 18 September 2002 (aged 100) Asmara, Eritrea |
| Denomination | Oriental Orthodoxy (Eritrean Tewahedo) |
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He was born in Endadeko, Ighelehames, Akeleguzay, Eritrea and began his religious training at the Debre Bizen Monastery at the age of eleven, and took monastic and priestly vows there. He was raised to the rank of Bishop and then Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church at Addis Ababa, but then left that church to join the Eritrean Synod when the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church broke away from the Ethiopian church upon the independence of Eritrea. He was elevated to the rank of Patriarch of Eritrea in May 1999 at the hands of Coptic Pope Shenouda III, and was enthroned in Asmara. He joined Ethiopian Patriarch Paulos in an unsuccessful effort to mediate the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Phillipos died after a long illness on September 18, 2002 at Asmara and was buried at the Debre Bizen Monastery. He was succeeded by Yacob.
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