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Religion

Selassie was an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church adherent. Since birth he was brought up and raised in the tents of Ethiopia's traditional Christian background. He was baptized Haile Selassie born Tafari Makonnen Later on in his adulthood and being crowned he took on his baptismal name as his official monarchial and legal name. He attended various meetings regarding inter-Christian faiths and tried to unite Orthodox from the Russian and other eastern orthodox churches to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexendria, Egypt. He also expressed his religious views by participating in the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization in 1966, West Berlin which evangelist Billy Graham organized.

He also tried to unify the Orthodox community far extending beyond Ethiopia into other Orthodox Churches including ones in Egypt, Armenian, Syria and others. Although he led such a movement as head of state of Ethiopia, he did not try to stop the Ethiopia Orthodox Tewahedo Church from having their own Patriarch which was chosen from Ethiopian descent, previously the Ethiopia Orthodox Tewahedo Church Patriarchs from the Egyptian Coptic Church which ended during his reign. Nonetheless, Selassie still adhered to and recognized the intracontinental and overseas relations between the Orthodox Churches and believed that it would be reasonable to try to move unification forward.

He kept a good connection with Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Patriarch of the Coptic Church in Egypt. Awarding Pope Cyril with the Star of Solomon due to his incentive of nominating and seceding power to Abuna Basilios the first Patriarch of Ethiopia, making Ethiopia having its first native Patriarch leading the Tewahedo Church. He had also allowed other inter-faiths to be practiced, although Christianity played an official role in the Constitutional Monarchy, but at a considerable limited way compared to his predecessors. Under Selassie's reign in 1942, Islam based courts were allowed to have judicial power concerning Muslim matters. Selassie also was seen discussing many issues and recognizing concerns from the Muslim community and giving audiences to the respective leaders.