Isaac Oluwole

Isaac Oluwole
Haihuwa	1852 Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
Mutuwa	1932
Matakin ilimi	Fourah Bay
Aiki	Clergy Educator
Uwar gida(s)	Abigail Oluwole
Yara	Abigail Tinuola Philips; Isaac Ladipo Oluwole; Rebecca Ibironke Lucas; Obafunmilayo Manuwa

Isaac Oluwole (1852–1932) Bishop ne ɗan Najeriya na al'adun Saliyo da Egba . Ya kasance daya daga cikin fitattun bakin haure daga Saliyo mazauna Legas a cikin rabin na biyu na karni na sha tara. Daga shekarar 1879 zuwa shekarar 1893 ya kasance shugaban makarantar CMS Grammar School da ke Legas daga baya kuma aka nada shi limami. A lokacinsa, yana daya daga cikin wadanda aka fi so a cikin takwarorinsa na malamai. Wani dalili wanda watakila ya kai ga shawararsa a matsayin bishop bayan babban ɗan takara mai tsattsauran ra'ayi, James Johnson, ya koka game da rashin kula da ikon 'yan asalin Cocin na Ƙungiyar Mishan.

Rayuwa

An haifi Oluwole a Abeokuta ga mahaifin gadon Ijebu kuma uwa daga Ilesha . Iyayensa membobin Cocin Anglican ne a Abeokuta karkashin Henry Townsend . Ya rasa mahaifinsa yana ɗan shekara 13 kuma bisa ga bukatar Townsend, an sanya shi ƙarƙashin kulawar Dr Harrison, wani ɗan mishan na CMS wanda ke horar da wasu yara a yankin. Oluwole ya halarci makarantar firamare ta Anglican da ke Ake, Abeokuta kuma ya ci gaba da karatunsa a Cibiyar horar da Anglican da ke Abeokuta. Lokacin da aka koma makarantar Legas bayan zanga-zangar adawa da masu wa’azi a Abeokuta, Oluwole ya ci gaba da karatunsa a Legas. Bayan ya kammala karatunsa, ya yi koyarwa na tsawon shekaru hudu tare da aikin.

A cikin 1876, bisa bukatar Rev. JB Wood, an ba shi tallafin zuwa Kwalejin Fourah Bay inda ya kammala karatunsa na digiri. Tare da NS Davies da Obadiah Johnson, Oluwole yana cikin ɗalibai na farko da suka sami digiri na farko daga makarantar a 1879 ta hanyar haɗin gwiwar kwalejin da Jami'ar Durham . Bayan rasuwar Rev TB Macaulay, surukin Bishop Ajayi Crowther a shekara ta 1879, kungiyar Mishan ta Church ta zabi Oluwole a matsayin sabon shugaban makarantar CMS Grammar School, Legas. An aika shi zuwa Ingila don ƙarin karatu kuma ya yi amfani da lokaci ɗaya a Makarantar Monkton Combe, wanda aka kafa a 1868 ta wani tsohon mai kula da Saliyo, kafin ya dauki matsayi.

An nada shi diacon a 1881 kuma firist a 1884. Bayan mutuwar Bishop Crowther, CMS ya zaba ya zabi wani Bature a matsayin sabon Bishop wanda zai rike mukamin Bishop na Western Equatorial Africa kuma ya zabi ya zabi mataimakan bishop biyu na Afirka. Rev. J. Sidney Hill an nada shi bishop kuma ya biyo bayan aikin farko da Hill ya yi, Oluwole da Rev. Charles Philips aka zabi su zama Mataimakin Bishops. A cikin 1893, an keɓe shi a matsayin Mataimakin Bishop na Western Equatorial Africa a St Paul's Cathedral, London, Dutsen Ludgate ranar 29 ga Yuni, 1893 kuma daga baya aka ba shi digirin digiri na allahntaka daga Jami'ar Durham.

A ranar 13 ga Disamba, 1893, Oluwole, Hill, Philips da wasu limaman Ingilishi 12 sun isa Legas. Koyaya, Hill da matarsa sun mutu ba da daɗewa ba. Hill ya rasu ne a ranar 6 ga Janairu, 1894, bayan ya shafe kwanaki 24 a Legas. An zabi Herbert Tugwell a matsayin wanda zai maye gurbin Hill. A cikin 1920, Diocese na Equatorial Africa ta rabu gida biyu, Legas da Diocese na Nijar . An canza sunan Oluwole zuwa Mataimakin Bishop na Diocese na Legas.

Ya yi aure a 1888 kuma ya haifi 'ya'ya shida, uku daga cikinsu sun mutu kafin 1932. Ɗansa Isaac Ladipo Oluwole ya karanta likitanci a Jami'ar Glasgow inda ya kammala MB ChB a 1918.