> According to legend, the Aksumite king Ezana (reigned ca. A.D. 325–360) was converted to Christianity by his childhood tutor, Saint Frumentius, a Christian born in Lebanon who became the head of the Ethiopian church and its first bishop. Coins issued by Ezana during his lifetime seem to support this claim.

Also in the book of Acts in the Bible, Phillip the Evangelist is said to have converted a eunuch from the court of Queen Candace of Ethiopia who was visiting Jerusalem and reading the book of Isaiah. It this seems that this kingdom had significant interaction with Christianity and potentially Judaism as well. It is also interesting to note that a successor dynasty of which Haile Selassie was the last emperor, claimed descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.