Yoséf
fl. late 12th to early 13th century
Orthodox
Ethiopia

Yoséf was the brother and assistant of Abunä Yashaq, who set out for Ethiopia in 1210 A.D.

A. K. Irvine

E. Renaudot, Historia Patriarcharum Alexandrinorum (Paris, 1717).
J. Perruchon, "Extrait de la vie d'Abba Jean, 74e Patriarche d'Alexandrie, relatif à l'Abyssinie (suite et fin) in "Notes pour l'histoire d'Ethiopie," Revue Sémitique, t. VII (1899): 84.
C. Conti Rossini, Storia d'Etiopia (Bergamo, 1928), 308-309.

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.