History and Ordinary
It was established on 1937.03.25, during the Italian occupation, as Apostolic Prefecture of Gondar, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Abyssinia, the heartland of Ethiopia.
On 1951.10.31 it was suppressed, its territory being merged back into what was by then the Apostolic Exarchate of Addis Abeba (which became the Metropolitanate in chief of an Alexandrian rite Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris), in Abyssinia.
The Ethiopian Empire, also known as Abyssinia, was a kingdom that spanned a geographical area in the current states of Eritrea and Ethiopia. It began with the establishment of the Solomonic dynasty from approximately 1270 and lasted until 1974, when the ruling Solomonic dynasty was overthrown in a coup d'état by the Derg.
Its first and only Ordinary was Father Pietro Villa, Comboni Missionaries (F.S.C.I.) (1937.07.28 – resigned 1946.03.25), later Titular Bishop of Lystra (1946.03.25 – death 1960.11.13) and Auxiliary Bishop of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Porto e Santa Rufina (Italy) (1946.03.25 – 1951), finally Auxiliary Bishop of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Ostia (Italy) (1951 – 1960.11.13).
The Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, also known as the Comboni Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, the Verona Fathers, or the Sons of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and originally called the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is a male religious institute of papal law: the members of this congregation, known merely as Comboni, bear the letters MCCI. It was founded on June 1, 1867.
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