Debre Bizen
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Debre Bizen is the most well known monastery of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church. It was founded in the 1350s at the top of a mountain near the town of Nefasit, Eritrea. It was founded by Abba Filipos who was a student of Abba Absadi. By 1400 the Monastery followed the rule of the House of Ewostatewos. According to Tom Killion, it remained independent of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church[1], while Richard Pankhurst states that it continued to be dependent on the Ethiopian Orthodox Church centered in Axum.[2] The Monastery also contains many important Ge'ez manuscripts in its library.
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- ^ Killion, Tom (1998). Historical Dictionary of Eritrea. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810834375.
- ^ Pankhurst, Richard (1997). The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th Century. Red Sea Press Press. ISBN-10: 0932415199.
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