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Istifanos Monastery, the Glossary

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Istifanos Monastery (or St Stephen Monastery) is a monastery in Ethiopia, located in Lake Hayq.[1]

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  1. 17 relations: Acts of the Apostles, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Dil Na'od, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Heritage Fund, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Gospel Book, Hayq, Ethiopia, Iyasus Mo'a, Kingdom of Aksum, Lake Hayq, Monastery, Richard Pankhurst (historian), Saint Stephen, Shewa, Tekle Haymanot, Yekuno Amlak.

  2. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo monasteries
  3. Kingdom of Aksum
  4. Oriental Orthodox monasteries in Ethiopia

Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles (Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis Apostólōn; Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message to the Roman Empire.

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Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi

Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (أحمد بن إبراهيمالغازي, Harari: አሕመድ ኢብራሂም አል-ጋዚ, Axmed Ibraahim al-Qaasi; 21 July 1506 – 10 February 1543) was the Imam of the Adal Sultanate from 1527 to 1543.

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Dil Na'od

Dil Na'od was the last King of Aksum before the Zagwe dynasty.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Ethiopian Heritage Fund

The Ethiopian Heritage Fund is a British charity that works to preserve the antiquities and manuscripts of Ethiopian Orthodox monasteries.

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Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን, Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan) is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches.

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Gospel Book

A Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels (Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον, Evangélion), is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament – normally all four – centering on the life of Jesus of Nazareth and the roots of the Christian faith.

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Hayq, Ethiopia

Hayq or Haik (Amharic: ሐይቅ) is a town in northern Ethiopia.

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Iyasus Mo'a

Iyasus Mo'a (1214 – 1294) was an Ethiopian saint of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church; his feast day is 5 December (26 Hedar in the Ethiopian calendar).

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Kingdom of Aksum

The Kingdom of Aksum (ʾÄksum; 𐩱𐩫𐩪𐩣,; Axōmítēs) also known as the Kingdom of Axum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in East Africa and South Arabia from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages.

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Lake Hayq

Lake Hayq (Amharic: ሐይቅሐይቅ) is a freshwater lake of Ethiopia.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Richard Pankhurst (historian)

Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst OBE (3 December 1927 – 16 February 2017) was a British scholar, founding member of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, and former professor at the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.

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Saint Stephen

Stephen (wreath, crown, and by extension 'reward, honor, renown, fame', often given as a title rather than as a name; c. AD 5 – c. 34) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity.

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Shewa

Shewa (ሸዋ; Shawaa; Somali: Shawa), formerly romanized as Shua, Shoa, Showa, Shuwa (Scioà in Italian), is a historical region of Ethiopia which was formerly an autonomous kingdom within the Ethiopian Empire.

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Tekle Haymanot

Abune Tekle Haymanot (Ge'ez: አቡነ ተክለ ሃይማኖት; known in the Coptic Church as Saint Takla Haymanot of Ethiopia; 1215 – 1313) was an Ethiopian saint and monk mostly venerated as a hermit.

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Yekuno Amlak

Yekuno Amlak (Ge’ez: ይኩኖ አምላክ); throne name Tesfa Iyasus (ተስፋ ኢየሱስ; died 19 June 1285) was Emperor of Ethiopia, from 1270 to 1285, and the founder of the Solomonic dynasty, which lasted until 1974.

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See also

Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo monasteries

Kingdom of Aksum

Oriental Orthodox monasteries in Ethiopia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istifanos_Monastery

Also known as Istafanos monastery.