His Late Holiness Abune Theophilos, second Orthodox Patriarch of Ethiopia. Abune Theophilos Born in 1909 as Meliktu Jembere, in the parish of Debre Elias of Debre Markos town in Gojjam Province. In 1942, not long after Emperor Haile Selassie returned from exile, Abba Meliktu was made Memher of the Mekane Selassie ("House of the Trinity") Monastery in Addis Ababa. Later, with the completion of the Cathedral at this monastery, he was made Dean of this new Holy Trinity Cathedral with the title of L