Debre Libanos (Amharic: ደብረ ሊባኖስ, Oromo: Dabra libanose) is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo monastery, lying northwest of Addis Ababa in the North Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region. It was founded in 1284 by Saint Tekle Haymanot as Debre Atsbo and was renamed as Debre Libanos in the 15th century. He meditated in a cave above the current monastery for 29 years. The monastery's chief abbot, called the Ichege, was the second most powerful official in the Ethiopian Church after the Abuna.
The monastery complex sits on a terrace between a cliff and the gorge of one of the tributaries of the Abbay River (the Blue Nile). None of the original buildings of Debre Libanos survive, although David Buxton suspected "there are interesting things still to be found among the neighbouring cliffs".[1] Current buildings include the church over Tekle Haymanot's tomb, which Emperor Haile Selassie ordered constructed in 1961; a slightly older Church of the Cross, where Buxton was told a fragment of the True Cross is preserved; and five religious schools. The cave where the saint lived is in the nearby cliffs, which one travel guide describes as a five-minute walk away.[2] This cave contains a spring, whose water is considered holy and is the object of pilgrimages.
^David Buxton, Travels in Ethiopia, second edition (London: Benn, 1957), p. 64
^Matt Philips and Jean-Bernard Carillet, Ethiopia and Eritrea, third edition (n.p.: Lonely Planet, 2006), p. 111
later he was reinterred at DebreLibanos. In the 1950s, Emperor Haile Selassie constructed a new church at DebreLibanos Monastery over the site of the...
Solomonic periods. DebreLibanos and Debre Damo are some of the best-known monasteries in Ethiopia. Monasteries often have the titles of Debre ("church") and...
author, e.g., of the Anqaṣa Amin. As Abbot at the leading monastery of DebreLibanos he became the Echage, the second highest ecclesiastical office, as well...
On 11 June 1908, Menelik experienced a stroke while on pilgrimage to DebreLibanos. On 15 May 1909 Menelik informed his ministers that Iyasu would succeed...
the Source of the Nile (1790). This list was kept in the monastery of DebreLibanos in Shewa. August Dillmann's List B (1853). This list claimed that each...
elementary education at the local church then entered the Monastery of DebreLibanos where he received advanced religious education. He took the Holy Orders...
Shewa has large Oromo and Argobba Muslim populations. The monastery of DebreLibanos, founded by Saint Tekle Haymanot, is located in the district of Selale...
approximately 835 manuscripts, at present largely uncatalogued. Since 2016, the DebreLibanos Monastery holds Tweed MS150 from Howard University. Ethiopian manuscripts...
north. The Sost Lidet was also embraced by the influential monastery of DebreLibanos, located in Shewa. When Sahle Selassie sought to strengthen his power...
country, Debre Sina, was built in the fourth century. It is one of the oldest monasteries in Africa and the world.[unreliable source?] DebreLibanos, the...
awrajja, or sub-province, of Shewa. The region was home to the important DebreLibanos monastery built by Saint Tekle Haymanot. Also known as Selalle, an Oromo...
the tragic events of the DebreLibanos massacre. Investigators found that Abraha and Mogus had stayed a while at Debra Libanos, and slight circumstantial...
was content with his fief of Selale province near the monastery of DebreLibanos. During the rise of Emperor Haile Selassie I, Ras Kassa was loyal to...
thousands of Ethiopians at Danan and slaughtering almost 300 monks at the DebreLibanos Monastery. The flag of the Netherlands is officially adopted. February...
died of illness in March 1900 and was buried with pomp and ceremony at DebreLibanos. He was the father of Dejazmach Desta Darge, Woizero Tisseme Darge,...
Haymanot's DebreLibanos eventually eclipsed Istifanos, and from the reign of Amda Seyon it became the custom to appoint the abbot of DebreLibanos Ichege...
Ethiopian nobles", who had run away in his twenties to become a monk at DebreLibanos, as well as having a reputation "as an entrepreneur and an enfant terrible...
to the highest stage of ecclesiastical education at the monastery of DebreLibanos, where he took vows in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and became...
many executed. In May 1937, he ordered 297 monks of the monastery of DebreLibanos and 23 other individuals suspected of complicity shot. Over 100 deacons...
Iyasus Mo'a and started the important Monastic community of Debre Asbo in Shewa Amhara DebreLibanos, Abune Hirute Amlak was also trained in this Monastery...
the capital when it moved to Debre Tabor, Mekele and ultimately Addis Ababa. Sebate — Administrator of the DebreLibanos Monastery and deputy to the Ichege...
thirty of her visions. He wrote her hagiography at the monastery of DebreLibanos sometime between 1450 and 1508. A translation of two portions of the...
on religious themes, as well as stained-glass panels and mosaics for DebreLibanos, in the Ethiopian Empire; smaller individual pieces were put on display...
Gelada Male Female with baby drinking Both T. g. obscurus near DebreLibanos, Ethiopia Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification...
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