Abba Yamata

alikuwa mmonaki aliyefanya umisionari katika Ethiopia ya leo akaanzisha monasteri  chini ya kanuni ya Pakomi huko Gar'altahttps://dacb.org/stories/ethiopia/yam-ata/. 

Ni kati ya kundi la Watakatifu Tisa wa Kanisa la Kiorthodoksi la Ethiopia wanaosemekana kukimbilia nchi hiyo kutoka sehemu mbalimbali za Dola la RomaThe bishop Afonso Mendes, who had been the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Ethiopia under Emperor Susenyos, cited the "Chronicle of Axum" as saying about the Nine Saints, "In the days of Amiamid [i.e., Ella Amida] many monks came from Rum, who fill'd all the Empire; Nine of them stay'd in Tigre, and each of them erected a Church of his own Name." Cited in Tellez, The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia, 1710 (LaVergue: Kessinger, 2010), pp. 89f. kutokana na dhuluma zilizofuata Mtaguso wa Kalsedonia (451). Wengine ni Abba Panteleoni, Abba 'Aléf, Abba Gärima, Abba Guba, Abba Liqanos, Abba Aregawi, Abba Sehma, Abba Aftse. Wote walikuwa wamonaki wasomi waliohuisha Ukristo wa Ethiopia. Wanasemekana kuwa ndio watafsiri wa Agano Jipya kwenda lugha ya Ge'ez.

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