Menghesteab Tesfamariam

The Most Reverend Menghesteab Tesfamariam
Archbishop of Asmara
Church	Eritrean Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Asmara
Orders
Ordination	18 February 1979
Consecration	16 September 2001 by Zekarias Yohannes
Personal details
Born	(1948-12-24) December 24, 1948 Berakit
Nationality	Eritrea
Denomination	Eritrean Catholic
Previous post	Ethiopian Catholic Bishop of Asmara (2001-2015)

Menghesteab Tesfamariam (born 24 December 1948 in Berakit) is, as metropolitan archbishop of the Archeparchy of Asmara, the head of the Eritrean Catholic Church. Ordained as a priest of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus on 18 February 1979, he was appointed as Bishop of Asmara on 25 June 2001, and ordained on 16 September. On June 30, 2011, in a speech in Nairobi, he proposed the establishment of a new scholarship fund in each diocese in the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) region to provide assistance to under-privileged students. In January 2015 Pope Francis established the Eritrean Catholic Church as an autonomous sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church, thus separating it from the Ethiopian Catholic Church. At the same time he elevated the Eparchy of Asmara to the dignity of an Archeparchy and named Menghesteab Tesfamariam as the head of the new church.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Zekarias Yohannes	Bishop of Asmara of the Ethiopians 2001–2015	Succeeded by Himself as Archbishop of Asmara of the Eritreans
Preceded by Himself as Bishop of Asmara of the Ethiopians	Archbishop of Asmara of the Eritreans 2015–present	Incumbent