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Tekle Haimanot II

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Early Life in the World
Patriarch '''Tekle Haimanot II''' (also transliterated as '''''Takla Haymanot''''') was the sixty-first head of the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church]] and its third patriarch. Both during his lifetime and since his death Abune Tekle Haimanot was known as a holy man and father of the Church of Ethiopia.
==Early Life in the World==
The future patriarch was born Mekuriya Welde Mika'el to Welde Mika'el Wendimu and Zewditu Kasa on 18 September 1917 in the small village of Wetebet in the northwestern Ethiopian province of Gojam. At a young age Mekuriya joined a nearby church school led by Merigeta Begenaw Wese. There he learned how to read and write the fidel (the Ethiopian alphabet), pray the Psalms, and sing the tones of Ethiopian Orthodox hymnography. Following the completion of these introductory studies the young Mekuriya left his home village to study Ethiopian Orthodox poetry (qene) under Memhir Lisane Werq in Yerez, Gojam.
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