he was successful in persuading two recently arrived egyptian abuns, mikael and gabriel, into accepting a compromise aimed at restoring harmony with the house of ewostatewos, as the followers of ewostatewos were known. at the same time, he made efforts to pacify the house of ewostatewos. while the ewostathians were won over to the compromise by 1442, the two abuns only agreed to the compromise at the council of debre mitmaq in tegulet (1450).