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banos, or the high church ; while Hannes, his father, had 

 done every thing in his power to inftil into his fon a pre- 

 polTeilion in favour of thofe of Abba Euftathius. 



To thefe opinions, therefore, fo widely different, as well- 

 in religion as the things of the world, I attribute the young 

 prince's dilinclination to live with his father. This feems 

 confirmed by the firft ftep he took upon his mounting 

 the throne, which was to make an alteration in the 

 church government from what his father had left it at his 

 deaths 



It was on the 7th of July 1 680 he was proclaimed king j, 

 the next day he deposed the Acab Saat Conftantius, and 

 gave his place to Afera Chriftos. He then called a coun- 

 cil of the clergy on the 27th of September, when he de- 

 pofed Itchegue Tzaga Chrillos, and in his room named Cy*. 

 riacus., 



It was now the time that, according to cullom, he was^, 

 to make his profeflion in regard to the difference I have 

 formerly mentioned that fubiifted between the two parties 

 about the incarnation of Chrift. But this he refilled to do 

 in the prefent Hate of the church, as there was then no 

 certain Abuna in AbyfTmia. For Hannes, before he died, 

 had written to the patriarch of Alexandria to depofc both 

 Abuna Chriftodulus and Marcus, who, in: cafe of deaths 

 was to have fucceeded him, and this under pretence that, 

 he had vrijied. in his faith between the two contending- 

 garties,. 



