Debre Libanos (ደብረ፡ሊባኖስ, Däbrä Libanos) is a monastery in Ethiopia, lying northwest of Addis Ambasa in the district of Selale of Shewa Province. The monastery was founded in the thirteenth century by Saint Tekle Haymanot, who according to legend meditated in a cave for thirty years standing on one leg. The monastery's chef Abbot, is known as the Etchage, and is the second most powerful official in the Abyssinian Church after the Abuna.