Axum
Abuna (Metropolitan of Ethiopia) · c. 330 (Frumentius, consecrated by Athanasius of Alexandria)
Frumentius, shipwrecked as a boy at Aksum, converted the court of king Ezana and was consecrated first Abuna by Athanasius. For sixteen centuries the metropolitans of Ethiopia came from Alexandria; the ancient record is sparse, and this dataset keeps only the attested early bishops.
Continues today as the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (autocephalous since 1959), the largest of the Oriental Orthodox churches.
The bishops
3 holders in the record.
Of the 2 links in this chain, 1 are inferred from the numbering — the register numbers the two holders consecutively and no source says one followed the other; 1 are named by no register at all: nothing joins those two rows. Each holder below says which it is.
- Frumentius #1 · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- Minas #2 · link inferred · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops · bishops in between are missing
- Abba Aftse #5 · link unrecorded · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops