The Latin Patriarchate of Ethiopia was a Latin

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of the

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from 1555 to 1663. The "archbishopric" was held primarily by

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bishops and all members of the

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List of Latin Patriarchs of Ethiopia

All

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. *''Uncanonical:

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, S.J. (1536? – 1545?; died 1570) * João Nunes Barreto, S.J. (1555.01 – retired 1557) * Andrés de Oviedo, S.J. (Spanish; 1562.12.22 – death 1577.06.29), succeeding as former

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of Ethiopia (Ethiopia) (1555.01.23 – 1562.12.22) &

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of the Syrians (1555.01.23 – 1577.06.29) * Melchior Carneiro (賈耐勞), S.J. (1577 – retired 1581), previously Titular Archbishop of

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(1555.01.23 – 1577) & Auxiliary Bishop of Ethiopia (Ethiopia) (1555.01.23 – 1577); also

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澳門 (Macau, Portuguese China) (1576.01.23 – 1581) *

Afonso Mendes Father Afonso Mendes (18 June 1579 – 21 June 1659), was a Portuguese Jesuit theologian, and Patriarch of Ethiopia from 1622 to 1634. While E. A. Wallis Budge has expressed the commonly accepted opinion of this man, as being "rigid, uncompromis ...

, S.J. (1622.12.19 – retired 1636)

Non-succeeding Coadjutor-Archbishops of Ethiopia

All were Jesuits, survived by the incumbent Patriarchs. * Didacus Secco, S.J. (1622.12.19 – death 1623.07), Titular Archbishop of

(1622.12.19 – 1623.07) *

João da Rocha João da Rocha, S.J. (1587–1639) was a Roman Catholic prelate who was named as Titular Archbishop of ''Hierapolis in Phrygia'' (1623–1639). ''(in Latin)'' Biography João da Rocha was born in Lisbon in 1587 and ordained a priest in 1603 i ...

, S.J. (1623.03.06 – death 1639.07.20), Titular Archbishop of

Hierapolis Hierapolis (; grc, Ἱεράπολις, lit. "Holy City") was originally a Phrygian cult centre of the Anatolian mother goddess of Cybele and later a Greek city. Its location was centred upon the remarkable and copious hot springs in classica ...

and Auxiliary

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(1623.03.06 – 1627?) * Apollinaris de Almeida, S.J. (1627.03.22 – death 1638.06.15), Titular Archbishop of

(1627.03.22 – 1638.06.15)

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List of Latin Patriarchs of Ethiopia

Non-succeeding Coadjutor-Archbishops of Ethiopia

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