Mr. Place has returned to the fold, while Mr. Outerbridge, who has since died, went to Egypt, studied under the patriarch to become a Coptic priest and set up the church here in 1990. We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. In the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, men are not allowed to have dreadlocks or long hair period. The Egyptian Orthodox does not condone marijuana - as Rastafarians do. Neither does it condone liquor or tobacco.
Sex is for people who are married to one another.
Rev. Connor said both in Bermuda and the Caribbean, people don't know the difference between Rastafarians and the Orthodox churches. The Archbishop has since been excommunicated, he said.