Brother, Ethiopia adopted Christianity as a state religion around 330 ad under king ezana long before advent of Islam.
Yes but Gragn sought to eradicate it in the Muslim-Christian Wars centuries later. None of this changes the fact that it was a Greek by way of Syria who brought it there to begin with, most likely prior to the date that you mentioned. This is not internet knowledge as I'm sure you would know. My wife is Ethiopian and I go to the country frequently and I talk to the elders. Ask any ethiopians in the orthodox church where did they get christianity, and those in the know would tell you a story about St. Fremanatos.
Lol @ you wikpedia wizard, get out of the house, go get some books or take a trip around the world and do some research. Google isn't the end all be all for history and information. But just to wet your whistle here's a little bone for ya....http://books.google.co.za/books?id=...AQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Fremenatos&f=false and here's a discussion/argument between an Ethiopian and Eritrean cat on the net fyi , with other BOOK sources there if you care to check them out.
and they say the man was white? The Ethiopian Church claims its earliest origins from the royal official said to have been baptized by Philip the Evangelist (not to be confused with Philip the Apostle), one of the seven deacons: Then the angel of the Lord said to Philip, Start out and go south to the road that leads down from Jerusalem to Gaza. So he set out and was on his way when he caught sight of an Ethiopian. This man was a eunuch, a high official of the Kandake (Candace) Queen of Ethiopia in charge of all her treasure. (Acts, 8:27) The passage continues by describing how Philip helped the Ethiopian treasurer understand a passage from Isaiah that the Ethiopian was reading. After the Ethiopian received an explanation of the passage, he requested that Philip baptize him, and Philip did so. The Ethiopic version of this verse reads "Hendeke" (ህንደኬ); Queen Gersamot Hendeke VII was the Queen of Ethiopia from ca. 42 to 52. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church If Jesus was obviously Black then it would be assumed that the disciples and evangelists were as well. Also the Dessert fathers of North Africa; The Desert Fathers were hermits, ascetics, monks, and nuns (Desert Mothers) who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt beginning around the third century AD. The most well known was Anthony the Great, who moved to the desert in 270–271 and became known as both the father and founder of desert monasticism. By the time Anthony died in 356, thousands of monks and nuns had been drawn to living in the desert following Anthony's example — his biographer, Athanasius of Alexandria, wrote that "the desert had become a city".[1] The Desert Fathers had a major influence on the development of Early Christianity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fathers
Brother I know about frumentius and the story of the shipwrecked brothers and how ezana was later baptized. My point to you is that this conversion had nothing to do with rise of Islam because by them they had already converted. Most of my students are Ethiopian American so I am very aware of their history.