his father and his country at once. his mother died soon, and he was left alone. ifeel for him as if i knew him. he was disjointed from ethiopia, from africa, and he remained there as if he had no home to africa. there as if he had no home. his story begins here on the remote highland mountains of northern ethiopia. the stronghold of his father. he was an ambitious but equally brutal man who was several wars against his rivals to be crowned emperor of abyssinia. his reign lasted for 13 violent years until he fought the british on a mission to free europeans he had arrested. these ancient castles once hosted powerful emperors. of theodoros ii, who committed suicide upon facing defeat by the british. they survived the test of time and they remain standing here. but not so many treasured items that were stolen after the battle. this is when al amaya, just seven years old at the time, was seized.
NEW YORK — Thursday, October 6, marked the first full day of the Apostolic visit of His Beatitude Theodoros II, Patriarch and Pope of Alexandria and all Africa, to the United States. In the morning, His Beatitude met with His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Catholic Archbishop of New York, and His Eminence Archbishop Borys Gudziak, of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. NEW YORK — Thursday, October 6, marked the first full day of the Apostolic visit of His Beatitude Theodoros II, Patriarch and Pope of Alexandria and all Africa, to the United States. In the.