Ghebreamlak was born on 23 June 1895 in the village of Guifa in Eritrea, then an Italian colony, to parents who were Ethiopian-rite Catholics and who raised him in that faith.

Ghebreamlak then worked to bring the Monophysite and Orthodox Christians back into union with the Roman Catholic Church.

With death imminent, he was permitted to make his solemn monastic profession on 4 April 1934, eight months ahead of time.

While hospitalized in Sora, he died on 8 June 1934, the Feast of the Sacred Heart that year, and was buried in the monastic cemetery at Casamari Abbey.

The cause for Ghebreamlak's canonization was started in 1955, with formal investigations of his life being carried out from 1956 to 1960, being officially accepted by the Holy See in 1969.