Father
Afonso Mendes (18 June 1579 – 21 June 1659), was a Portuguese
Jesuit theologian, and
Patriarch of Ethiopia from 1622 to 1634. While E.A. Wallis Budge has expressed the commonly accepted opinion of this man, as being "rigid, uncompromising, narrow-minded, and intolerant.", there are some who disagree with it. The writings of Mendes include
Expeditionis Aethiopicae, which describes the customs and conditions of Ethiopia.