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Debre Libanos
See also
Debre Libanos (Eritrea)
for another monastery of the same name.
Debre Libanos
(ደብረ፡ሊባኖስ, Däbrä Libanos) is a
monastery
in
Ethiopia
, lying northwest of
Addis Ababa
in the
Semien Shewa Zone
of the
Oromia Region
. Founded in the thirteenth century by Saint
Tekle Haymanot
, according to myth, he meditated in a cave for 29 years. The monastery's chief abbot, called the
Ichege
, was the second most powerful official in the
Ethiopian Church
after the
Abuna
.
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