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Father Afonso Mendes (18 June 1579 – 21 June 1659), was a Portuguese Jesuit theologian, and Patriarch of Ethiopia from 1622 to 1634. While E. A. Wallis Budge has expressed the commonly accepted opinion of this man, as being "rigid, uncompromising, narrow-minded, and intolerant", there are some … See more
Mendes was born in Santo Aleixo. He entered the Society of Jesus, where he was ordained priest, he received his doctorate in theology at the University of Coimbra, where he subsequently taught at the College of Arts. See more
Mendes is frequently blamed for the failure of the Jesuit mission in Ethiopia. Indeed, the only other country where the Jesuit mission failed was Japan.
However, some … See moreIn response to the favor Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia showed towards Catholicism, Mendes was appointed Patriarch of Ethiopia by Pope Urban VIII, and left for Ethiopia in March 1623. (The first Catholic missionaries had arrived in Ethiopia in 1557). See more
They reached Diu a month later, and Mendes immediately continued on to Goa, where he unsuccessfully sought military support for his … See more
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