sentences:  His father, a married priest, was named Kesis Gizaw Zeyohnes and his mother was Woizero Zenebech Yeshi.His family claimed descent from the same family that produced the deeply revered Ethiopian Saint Abuna Tekle Haymanot.Young Woldetensae was ordained a deacon by the Coptic Archbishop of Ethiopia, Abuna Qerellos in 1929.