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Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church since 2013

Abune Mathias (born Teklemariam Asrat; 5 January 1941)^[1] is the sixth and current Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church since 2013.^[2] His full title is "His Holiness Abune Mathias I, Sixth Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Archbishop of Axum and Ichege of the See of Saint Taklehaimanot".

Early life

Teklemariam Asrat was born on 5 January 1941 in Agame, a district of Tigray Province, in Sebuha county.^[3][4]

Teklemariam was ordained as deacon in 1954 by Abune Markos, the then Archbishop of Eritrea.

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Deacon Teklemariam served in several capacities at the Chohé monastery, in Tembien district of Tigray, where he stayed for most of the subsequent 14 years. In 1963, he was ordained as a priest and monk at Chohé. Now known as Abba Teklemariam, he left the monastery to further his education in Addis Ababa, and served in the Holy Trinity C