Honorific Prefix: | Saint |
Yem’ata | |
Titles: | Abba |
Birth Date: | 5th century |
Residence: | Ethiopia |
Death Date: | 6th century |
Death Place: | Ethiopia |
Venerated In: | Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church |
Feast Day: | November 2 |
Abba Yäm’ata or Yem’ata (probably late 400s and early 500s A.D.) was one of the Nine Saints of Ethiopia.[1]
He founded a monastery in Gär’alta in Endärta woreda, Tigray Region. His feast day is on 23 Teqemt (2 November).[2]
The church of Abuna Yemata Guh is dedicated to him.