He was ordained a priest on 4 April 1980. He was appointed Bishop of Adigrat (Ethiopian), Ethiopia on 16 November 2001 and consecrated on 20 January 2002. In November 2021, Tesfaselassie Medhin denounced "a genocidal war" and criticized the joint report of the
Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation in the
Tigray region. ==References==