About Zekarias Yohannes
Lived 1925 – 2016 (aged 91). Zekarias Yohannes was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Zekarias Yohannes (13 May 1925 – 1 December 2016) was an Ethiopian bishop of the Ethiopian Catholic Church who was bishop of the Eparchy of Asmara from 1984 to 2001.
He was born in Adigenú. He was ordained a priest of the Eparchy of Asmara on 2 June 1949. Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop of Asmara and titular bishop of Barca on 29 January 1981. He received his episcopal consecration on 6 June from Paulos Tzadua, Archbishop of Addis Ababa. He was appointed bishop of Asmara, then in Ethiopia and after 1993 in Eritrea, on 17 July 1984. He retired on 25 June 2001.
He died on 1 December 2016.
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Who was Zekarias Yohannes?
Eritrean bishop (1925-2016)
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Zekarias Yohannes was born on 13 May 1925 in Eritrea.
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Zekarias Yohannes died on 1 December 2016 in Asmara.
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Zekarias Yohannes was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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Zekarias Yohannes's recorded nationality: Eritrea.
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