This is a list of Abunas of Ethiopia , the spiritual head of the Tawahedo Church. This church is one of the Oriental Orthodoxy communion, autonomous to the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria.

Bishops of Axum

• Abune Selama I Kesatay Birhan (St. Frumentios), (c. 305-mid 300s)
• Minas
• Abreham (late 300s-early 400s )
• Petros
• Abba Afse (late 400s-early 500s)
• Qozmos (fl. early 500s)
• Euprepius (fl. early 500s )

Metropolitans of Ethiopia

• Qerellos (620s-mid 600s)

unknown

• Yohannes (c. 820-840)
• Yaqob I
  
  
  
  (fl. mid 800s)
• Salama Za-'Azeb (fl. 800s)
• Bartalomewos (fl. 900s)
• Petros (920s)
  • opposed by Minas and Fiqtor
• (vacant c. 940-970s)
• Daniel (fl. late 900s)
• Fiqtor (fl. 1000s)
• 'Abdun, claimant
• Sawiros (1077-1092)
• Giyorgis I (fl. 1090s)
• Mikael I (fl. early-mid 1100s)
• Ya'eqob II
• Gabra Krestos
• Atnatewos (fl. late 1100s)

unknown

• Mikael II of Fuwa (1206-1209)
  • opposed by Hirun
• Yeshaq (c. 1209-1225)
• Giyorgis II (c.1225)
• Saint Takla Haymanot (c. 1200s)
• Yohannes (XIII ?) (fl. 1300s)
• Yaqob (III ?) (c.1337 - 1344)
• Salama II (1348 - 1388)
• Bartalomewos (1398/9 - 1436)
• Mikael and Gabriel (1438 - 1458)
• vacant 1458 - 1481
• Yeshaq (1481 - c.1520)
• Marqos (VIII ?) (1481 - c.1530)
• John Bermudez (c.1536 - c.1545), self-proclaimed Ethiopian Orthodox Abuna, Catholic Patriarch of Ethiopia and Alexandria
• Andre de Oviedo (1557 - 1577), Catholic bishop
• Endyras (c.1545 - ?)
• Petros (VI ?) (? - 1606)
• Simon (1607-1622), died 1624
• Alfonzo Mendez
  
  
  
  (1622-1632), Catholic appointed Patriarch, deposed

Between 1624-1632, Roman Catholicism was the state religion of Ethiopia, separating Ethiopia from Alexandria.

• Rezek (1634 - ?)
• Marqos (IX ?) (fl. mid 1600s)
• Abba Mikael (fl. late 1600s), d.1699
• Marqos X (1694 - 1716)
• vacant 1716 - 1718
• Krestodolos III (c. 1718 - 1745)
• vacant 1745 - c. 1747
• Yohannes XIV (c. 1747 - 1770)
• Yosab III (1770 - 1803)
• vacant 1803-c. 1808
• Makarios (fl. c. 1808)
• vacant c. 1808-1816)
• Kyrillos (Qerellos) III (1816 - 1829)
• vacant 1829-1841
• Salama III (1841 - 1866)
• vacant 1866-1868
• Atanasios (1868 - 1876)
• Petros VII (1876 - 1889), died 1918
• Mattheos X (1889 - 1926)
• Qerellos IV (1926 - 1936), deposed
• Abraham (1936 - 1939)
• Yohannes XV (1939 - 1945)
• Qerellos IV (1945 - 1950), restored

(On 13 July 1948, the Coptic and Ethiopian Churches reached an agreement that led to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate; afterwards, following the death of Kyrillos the title is "Patriarch of Ethiopia".)

Patriarchs of Ethiopia (1951)

• Baslios (1951 - 1970)
• Theophilos (1971 - 1976), died 1979
• Tekle Haymanot (1976 - 1988)
• Merkurios (1988 - present), continuing in exile 1991, opposed by..
• Paulos (1992 - present), recognized in Ethiopia and by the Coptic Church of Alexandria.

See also

• Abuna
• Coptic Christianity
• List of Coptic Popes
• Oriental Orthodoxy
• Tawahedo Church

Liste des primats de l'Église éthiopienne orthodoxe