Major conflict1622 – 1632 · 10 years

Ethiopian Catholic civil war

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Dembiya · Lake Tana · Gojjam · Damot

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Susenyos's conversion to Catholicism triggered an Orthodox revolt under his son Fasilides that ended with the expulsion of the Jesuits.

Belligerents2

Ethiopian Empire
Oromo confederations

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Medieval–Gondarine)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Ethiopian Catholic civil war (1622 – 1632). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/ethiopian-catholic-civil-war · Sources & methodology