Ermias Sahle Selassie

Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie
Prince of Ethiopia

Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie in 2012.
Born (1960-06-14) 14 June 1960
Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire
Spouse Woizero
(m. 1989 - div. 2004)
Woizero Saba Kebede (m. 2011)
Issue Leul Sahle-Selassie Ermias
Leul Fesseha Zion Ermias
House House of Solomon
Father Sahle Selassie
Mother Mahisente Habte Mariam
Religion Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo
Imperial Family of Ethiopia

HIH The Crown Prince

  • HIH Princess Lideta Zera Yacob

HIH Princess Ijigayehu

  • HIH Prince Samson Fikre Selassie
  • HIH Prince Bekere Fikre Selassie
  • HIH Princess Donna Fikre Selassie
  • HIH Prince Yisehaq Fikre Selassie
  • HIH Princess Rahel Fikre Selassie
  • HIH Princess Aster Fikre Selassie
  • HIH Princess Meheret Fikre Selassie

HIH Princess Maryam Senna
HIH Princess Sehin Azebe
HIH Princess Sifrash Bizu

Extended family
Extended family

Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie (born on 14 June 1960 in Addis Ababa)[1] is the only son of Prince Sahle Selassie of Ethiopia and Princess Mahisente Habte Mariam. He is the grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, and furthermore of Dejazmach Habte Mariam Gebre-Igziabiher, the heir to the former Welega kingdom of Leqa Naqamte, and later served as governor of Welega province. Currently the prince is ninth in the line of succession to the vacant imperial throne.

Education

Prince Ermias was educated in Ethiopia, Great Britain, and the United States. In England, he received his education at Old Ride Preparatory School, and then at the Haileybury College. He obtained a BA degree in the social studies, with an emphasis in economics, from the University of California, in Santa Barbara. He continued his education at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy between 1983 and 1985.

Prince Ermias is fluent in Amharic, English and German.[2]

Family

Prince Ermias was first married on 9 June 1989 to Woizero Gelila Fesseha, daughter of Afe-Negus Fesseha Gabre-Selassie, a former Lord Chief Justice of Ethiopia, and by her is the father of twin sons:

Prince Ermias and his first wife later divorced in July 2004.[3] On 25 February 2011,[4] Prince Ermias married Woizero Saba Kebede.[5] The Prince and his wife live in the Metro Washington DC area.

Royal function

Prince Ermias currently serves as the President of the Crown Council of Ethiopia in exile. The Crown Council has pursued a mission devoted to the promoting a cultural and humanitarian role. Prince Ermias is also patron of the Haile Selassie Fund for Children in Need which continues to sponsor student scholarships, and the St. George of Lalibela Foundation.

On 16 September 2010, Prince Ermias delivered remarks at a briefing entitled "Traditional Leadership in the Modern World: Humanitarianism, Culture and the Diaspora" in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. This briefing was conducted by Representative Diane Watson, who was a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and whose congressional district in Los Angeles includes Little Ethiopia. Empaneled with visiting royalty from Cameroon and the Kingdom of Swaziland (Princess Phindiwe Sangweni), Prince Ermias described the cultural leadership exercised by deposed and exiled royalty among members of ethnic communities living in either ancestral lands or diaspora in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Patronages

Honours

Orders of knighthood

Awards

Other honorifics

Ancestry

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Shoa6". Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  2. ↑ WebitectPRO!. "The Crown Council of Ethiopia". Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "http://www.ethiopiancrown.org/announce.htm/". Retrieved 1 June 2016. External link in |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "HIH Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie marries - Monarchy Forum". Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  5. ↑ (Spanish) Príncipe Ermias Sahle Selassie
  6. ↑ "http://www.saintlazarus.org/pages/Announcements%20HIH%20Prince%20appointed%20Depute%20Supreme%20Grand%20Prior.html". Retrieved 1 June 2016. External link in |title= (help)
  7. ↑ WebitectPRO!. "The Crown Council of Ethiopia". Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem". Retrieved 1 June 2016.

See also

Line of succession to the Ethiopian Throne

External links

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