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Abba 'Ěnbāqom (c.1470 – c.1565) born Ab'ul-Fath was a Yemeni[1] polyglot, religious leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church,[2] translator, and author of the Anqaṣa Amin.[3] As Abbot at the leading monastery of Debre Libanos he became the Echage, the second highest ecclesiastical office, as well as head of all Ethiopian monasteries, and was often regarded as the most influential person in the Ethiopian Church.[4][5][6]
- ^ Gädlä Énba-qom, Ricci 1954ff
- ^ E. J. Donzel at 17-28, who references the Geez Gadl ["acts" or "struggles"] of Enbaqom per Lanfraco Ricci.
- ^ E. J. Donzel at 29-43 (see Bibliography).
- ^ Francisco Álvares at I: 262, note 2 by the editors Beckingham and Huntingford.
- ^ Chris Prouty and Eugene Rosenfeld at 53.
- ^ The Echage (or Etchegé or Ĕčägē) was "a position no other foreigner has held, before or since." David Buxton at 133.