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 Leiden University catalogue |
| Title: | Abunä Sälama: Metropolitan of Ethiopia, 1841-1867. A New Ge'ez Biography |
| Authors: | Crummey, Donald Haile, Getatchew |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Ethiopian Studies (ISSN 0304-2243) |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 5-40 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs., ills., maps |
| Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Northeast Africa |
| Subjects: | Ethiopian Church Church and State history 1840-1849 1850-1859 1860-1869 biographies (form) Biography, Obituaries Religious leaders Episcopacy Abunä Sälama Ethiopian Orthodox Church biography |
| About person: | 'Abunä' Sälama (1841-1867 (working years)) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41966151 |
| Abstract: | 'Abunä' Sälama was the Metropolitan of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church from 1841 until his death in 1867. He is a significant figure for an understanding of the origins of 20th-century Ethiopia and of the modern history of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. His career spanned the final decades of the Zämänä Mäsafent (1769-1855), a period of radical devaluation of Ethiopia's monarchical institutions, and the first years of the reconstruction of those institutions, years in which the foundations of Ethiopian modernity were laid. During most of his episcopacy, Sälama was at odds with Ethiopia's political rulers - the leading princes of the late Zämänä Mäsafent and, then, Tewodros (1855-1868). However, a brief period of rapprochement between bishop and emperor, and a following period, until c. 1864, of formal propriety in their relations, foreshadowed a later revival of the relations between Church and State which were to prove productive in creating the modern State. In the present paper a manuscript is published which allows the perspective of Sälama himself to emerge. It is written in Ge'ez, and the only text known, from before the 20th century, which focuses exclusively on one of the bishops of the Ethiopian Church. Following a summary account of Sälama's career, the paper presents the original Ge'ez text and an annotated translation in English. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
