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Tesfaye Tadesse Gebresilasie
Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate (born 1969) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tesfaye Tadesse Gebresilasie, MCCJ (born on 22 September 1969) is an Ethiopian Catholic prelate who has served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Addis Abeba since 2024. He was consecrated and installed on 2 February 2025. He is a member of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus.
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Background and education
He was born on 22 September 1969 in Harar, Harari Region, Ethiopia. In 1986, he became a member of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus. He took his perpetual vows of the Comboni Missionaries on 1 November 1994. He was ordained a priest of that religious order on 26 August 1995.[1]
He studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome, Italy. He then studied at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, also in Rome, Italy, where he earned a Licentiate in Arabic and Islamic Studies in 2001. He undertook advanced studies in the Arabic language at the Dar Comboni Institute for Arabic Studies in Cairo, Egypt.[2]
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Priest
On 1 November 1994 he took his perpetual vows as a Comboni Missionary. He was ordained a priest of the Order of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus on 26 August 1995 at Addis Ababa in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia.[1][2]
As a priest, he served in various roles in different locations, including as:[2]
- Provincial Superior of the Combonian Missionaries in Ethiopia since 2005.
- President of the Conference of Major Religious Superiors of Ethiopia since 2005.
- Member of the General Councilor, Comboni Missionaries in Ethiopia since 2009.
- Coordinator of the Confederation of Conferences of Superiors and Major Superiors of Africa and Madagascar since 2013.
- Superior General of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2022. Served in that capacity until 6 November 2024.[1][2][3]
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Bishop
On 6 November 2024, Pope Francis appointed Reverend Tesfaye Tadesse Gebresilasie as Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[4] He was consecrated and installed there on 2 February 2025 at the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Addis Ababa. The Principal Consecrator was Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Archbishop of Addis Ababa assisted by Archbishop Menghesteab Tesfamariam, Archbishop of Asmara (Eritrean), and Bishop Abraham Desta, Titular Bishop of Horrea Aninici.[1][2] He was contemporaneously consecrated as Titular Bishop of Cleopatris.[1][2][4]
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