Did you know that Bob Marley...

...converted to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church before his death.

Here's the story.

This is interesting also:

Marley developed a friendship with Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop Abuna Yesehaq who had been sent from Africa by the Emperor Haile Selassie I after he found out that many in Jamaica were worshipping him as God incarnate. (This belief is the center of Rastafarianism.)


Father Lloyd Malakot, currently the chief priest and administrator of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jamaica, knew Archbishop Yesehaq well. He shared with me how the archbishop won Bob and many Rastas over through the witness of his love and respect for them. When police were arresting Rastas and shaving their dreads before releasing them, he went to the commissioner of police and stopped the persecution.

Archbishop Yesehaq became close friends with Bob who donated to his ministry, even giving him one of his houses in which the archbishop lived for years.

Years of friendship and charity earned the archbishop the right to be heard and, according to Father Malakot:

“Bob cried when the archbishop invited him to conversion and to give his heart to Christ. He decided to accept baptism.”

That "Haile Selassie is God" thing always seemed weird to me.  Apparently Haile Selassie felt the same way as well.
[Insert obligatory ganja reference here.]