Mattéwos
fl. c. late 5th to early 6th century
Orthodox
Ethiopia

Mattéwos, Abba, was a disciple of Abba Zä-Mika'él 'Arägawi when Däbrä Damo was first chosen as the site for a monastery, and succeeded him as abbot there.

A. K. Irvine

I. Guidi, "Il 'Gadla Aragâwi,'" Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Serie quinta, Vol. II (1896).

This article is reproduced, with permission, from The Dictionary of Ethiopian Biography, Vol. 1 'From Early Times to the End of the Zagwé Dynasty c. 1270 A.D., copyright © 1975, edited by Belaynesh Michael, S. Chojnacki and Richard Pankhurst, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. All rights reserved.