Saint Stephen of the Abyssinians (Italian: Santo Stefano degli Abissini) is an Ethiopian Catholic church located in the Vatican City.

[2] In 1479, Pope Sixtus IV restored the church and assigned it to the Coptic Catholic monks in the city.

To Ethiopians, it was Däbrä Qeddus Esṭifanos (Amharic: ደብረ ቅዱስ እስጢፋኖስ), 'Monastery of Saint Stephen'; the church had been part of a monastery which was already in existence at the time of the constitutive synod called by Pope Gregory III in 732.

[3] The biography of Pope Hadrian I, 772-795 names the site as Latin: monasterium S. Stephani cata Barbara patricia situm ad S. Petrum apostolum 'monastery of Saint Stephen associated with the noblewoman Barbara located next to Saint Peter the apostle.'

"The peak of Santo Stefano's intellectual influence was the mid-16th century, for it was in this period that Täsfa Ṣǝyon, who'd arrived in Rome by 1536 and died there in 1552, tirelessly disseminated knowledge of Ethiopian language and culture.