Zekarias Yohannes

Zekarias Yohannes (13 May 1925 – 1 December 2016) was an Eritrean Catholic bishop. He was born in Adigenú. He was ordained as a priest of Asmara on 2 June 1949, and was appointed both Auxiliary Bishop of Asmara and Titular Bishop of Barca on 29 January 1981. He was appointed Bishop of Asmara on 17 July 1984, a position he held until his retirement on 25 June 2001.[1] Through much of his career he would have been considered an Ethiopian clergyman.