Frumentius
Bishop of Aksum
b. 4th century · d. 383
1st Abuna (Metropolitan of Ethiopia)
Offices
Frumentius was a Phoenician Christian missionary and the first bishop of Axum who brought Christianity to the Kingdom of Aksum. He is sometimes known by other names, such as Abuna and Aba Selama.
Related people
- Minas preceded · inferred
Events
Commemorated
Places
- Tyre nativity
- Axum ministry
- Alexandria travel
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Ecclesiastical History 1 claim — HE I.19
- Ecclesiastical History 1 claim — Conversion of Aksum