Saint Yared

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Saint Yared is a 6th-century Ethiopian saint, composer, and scholar revered as the creator of the traditional Ethiopian liturgical music system and chant.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian religious figure
Ethiopian Orthodox saint
composer
saint
scholar
associatedWith Aksumite Empire
Ethiopian liturgical tradition
Geʽez chant
centuryOfActivity 6th century
countryOfCitizenship Aksumite Empire
culturalHeritage Ethiopian Christianity
ethnicGroup Ethiopian
fieldOfWork Christian liturgy
hymnography
liturgical music
poetry
scholarship
genre liturgical chant
sacred music
hasCanonicalStatus saint
hasTitle Father of Ethiopian church music
honorificPrefix Saint
influenced Eritrean Orthodox liturgy
Ethiopian Christian music tradition
Ethiopian Orthodox liturgy
knownFor composing hymns for the Ethiopian Church
creating the traditional Ethiopian liturgical music system
developing Ethiopian chant
founding the Zema system of chant
languageOfWorkOrName Geʽez
legacy creation of a notational and modal system for Ethiopian church music
standardization of Ethiopian liturgical chant
name Yared
occupation composer
hymnographer
priest
scholar
placeOfActivity Aksum
Ethiopia
placeOfBirth Aksum
Kingdom of Aksum
religion Christianity
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
veneratedIn Eastern Christianity
Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
writingSystemUsed Geʽez script


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