Holy Trinity University

Undergraduate Extension Program (B. Th.)

Course: Ethiopian Church History I
Assignment
Set by: - Kassa Mekonnen
ID: E-148/15
Submitted to: - Mhr. Solomon K.

December 18/2023
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Who were the three fathers of the Nine Saints who never die or God take to heaven (Bihere
Bitsuan) without them dying?
The following monks is believed to have ascended to heaven like Elijah and Enoch. Namely:-
1. Abba Aregawi (Ze-Michael)
2. Abba Gerima (Issac/Yeshaq)
3. Abba Afse
Some Details of the Three Fathers Who Ascended to Heaven
No Name Origin Church/Monastery Location of Feast Day
the Church
1 Abba Aregawi Constantinople Debre Damo Eastern Tikimit 14
(Abba Ze- Tigray (October 24)
Michael)
2 Abba Gerima Constantinople Debre Medera/ Medera Sene 17 (June 24)
(Abba Issac / Debre Gerima (East of
Yeshaq) Adwa)
3 Abba Afse Ladocia, Asia Debre Afse(Yeha) Yeha, Ginbot 29 (June
Minor Northeast of 6)
Aksum

Sources:
Sergew Hable Selassie, Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270, (Addis Ababa: Haile
Selassie I University Press), 1972, pp. 115-119.
Wallis Budge, The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church: the Ethiopic Synaxarium,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 1928.