Abuna Takla Haymanot

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His Holiness Abune Takla Haymanot
Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia
Church	Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Installed	29 August 1976
Term ended	5 June 1988
Predecessor	Abuna Theophilos
Successor	Abune Merkorios
Orders
Ordination	1934 (Priesthood)
Consecration	18 July 1976
Personal details
Born	Melaku Wolde-Mikael (1917-09-21)21 September 1917 Mahdere Mariam, Begemder Province, Ethiopia (now Farta, South Gondar, Ethiopia)
Died	29 August 1988(1988-08-29) (aged 70) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Buried	Holy Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa
Nationality	Ethiopian

Abuna Takla Haymanot (Ge'ez: አቡነ ተክለ ሃይማኖት, born Melaku Wolde-Mikael: 21 September 1917 – 29 August 1988) was the third Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church from 1976 to 1988.

After political turmoil of the Ethiopian Revolution, the Derg arrested Abuna Theophilos in May 1976 to consecrate Melaku. The government proceeded to hold church assembly to elect the bahtawi (hermit) Melaku that has little education around the subject. On 7 July 1976, The Assembly of the Church held under the leadership of the Locum Tenens (Acting Patriarch) Archbishop Abune Yohannes that elevated Melaku to Patriarch on 18 July, and ultimately enthroned on 29 August.