Court orders followers to yield control of Ethiopian Orthodox Church

published: Friday August 31, 2007


Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter


The 1992 split in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jamaica has finally been resolved by the Supreme Court.


Mr. Justice Donald McIntosh has ordered the followers of the late Archbishop Abuna Yesehaq, who were running the church over the last 15 years, to hand over control to the duly appointed board of trustees.

The legal battle between the parties began in 1994 when the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) brought a suit in the Supreme Court against Yesehaq, who was formerly the Archbishop of the Caribbean and Latin America. After Yesehaq died, the suit was amended in 2006 and Lloyd Dobson, an administrator, substituted as the defendant.

Attorneys-at-law Raphael Codlin, Jacqueline Samuels-Brown and Tamika Gordon, who represented the EOC, argued that by Act 11 of 1978 the EOC was incorporated in Jamaica. They said the duly appointed Patriarch Abuna Gabriel had appointed a board of trustees in 1993 and that board was legally responsible for the running of the EOC.

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