Abuna Basilios

His Holiness
Abune

Basilios
His Holiness; Abune; Basilios
Patriarch Catholicos of the ; Ethiopia
Church	Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Installed	28 June 1959
Term ended	12 October 1970
Predecessor	Pope Cyril VI (Before autocephaly from Coptic Church) ; Abuna Qerellos IV (as Archbishop of Ethiopia)
Successor	Abuna Theophilos
Other post(s)	Archbishop of Ethiopia ; Blessed Echege of the See of Takla Haymanot
Orders
Ordination	1914 (Priesthood)
Consecration	25 July 1948 by Coptic Pope Yousab II
Personal details
Born	Gebre-Giorghis Wolde-Tsadiq; 23 April 1891; Mada Mikael, Shewa Province, Ethiopian Empire (now Merhabete, North Shewa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia)
Died	13 October 1970 (aged 79)
Buried	Holy Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Nationality	Ethiopian

Abuna Basilios (23 April 1891 – 13 October 1970) was an Ethiopian-born first Archbishop or Abuna, and later the first Patriarch, of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.^[1]

^ Unless otherwise indicated, material for this article was taken from Yolande Mara, The Church of Ethiopia – The National Church in the Making (Asmara: IL POLIGRAFICO, 1972), pp. 113-115.

His Holiness Abune Basilios
Patriarch Catholicos of the Ethiopia

Church	Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Installed	28 June 1959
Term ended	12 October 1970
Predecessor	Pope Cyril VI (Before autocephaly from Coptic Church) Abuna Qerellos IV (as Archbishop of Ethiopia)
Successor	Abuna Theophilos
Other post(s)	Archbishop of Ethiopia Blessed Echege of the See of Takla Haymanot
Orders
Ordination	1914 (Priesthood)
Consecration	25 July 1948 by Coptic Pope Yousab II
Personal details
Born	Gebre-Giorghis Wolde-Tsadiq (1891-04-23)23 April 1891 Mada Mikael, Shewa Province, Ethiopian Empire (now Merhabete, North Shewa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia)
Died	13 October 1970(1970-10-13) (aged 79)
Buried	Holy Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Nationality	Ethiopian