Riwai Te Ahu

Riwai Te Ahu
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Waitara (en) , 1820
ƙasa	Sabuwar Zelandiya
Mutuwa	Ōtaki (en) , 1 Oktoba 1866
Sana'a
Imani
Addini	Anglicanism (en)

Kataore, Mere, pounamu (42cm x 12cm) mai suna bayan wani shugaban Ngāi Tahu wanda Te Rauparaha ya kashe a cikin shekarun 1830. Kyautar da Riwai Keioni Te Ahu ya ba Sir George Grey.

Riwai Te Ahu (c1821-1866) sanannen malami ne kuma mai wa'azi a ƙasashen waje na New Zealand. Daga zuriyar Māori, ya bayyana tare da Ngāti Hinerangi da Ngāti Awa iwi (ƙabilar). An haife shi a New Zealand">Waitara, Taranaki, New Zealand . Shi ɗan Tuhoe ne na Waiongana da Waipuia na Waitara . A cikin shekarar 1840 Rev. Octavius Hadfield ya yi masa baftisma a Waikanae Mission of the Church Missionary Society (CMS).

Daga kimanin shekarar 1840 zuwa 1854 ya kasance malamin ka'idoji kuma malami a aikin CMS a Waikanae . [1] Ya yi aiki tare da Hadfield don kafa makarantu tsakanin mutanen Māori da ke zaune a Queen Charlotte Sound, gami da Okukari Bay..

A farkon shekara ta 1855 Bishop George Selwyn ya kai shi Auckland domin ya iya karatu don hidima a Kwalejin St. John a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Archdeacon Kissing . An naɗa Te Ahu a matsayin mai hidima a ranar 23 ga Satumban shekarar 1855 a Cocin St Paul, Auckland ta Bishop George Selwyn . Shi ne limamin Māori na biyu da aka nada a matsayin dikon, bayan abokinsa Rota Waitoa wanda aka naɗa a matsayin dikon a 1853.

A watan Satumbar shekarar 1855 ya bi Bishop Selwyn da John Patteson a ziyarar fastoci zuwa Tsibirin Kudancin da Tsibirin Chatham . An naɗa shi firist a shekara ta 1858 kuma ya zama memba na CMS. A ranar 11 ga Yulin shekarar 1859 an naɗa shi a matsayin mataimakin Rev. Hadfield a Ōtaki . A watan Oktoba na shekara ta 1859 ya kasance memba na majalisa ta farko ta Diocese na Wellington . Ya gudanar da makarantu a Queen Charlotte Sound da Tory Channel kuma yana da alaƙa da cibiyar Anglican a Okukari Bay a Marlborough . Ya mutu a Ōtaki a ranar 6 ga Oktoban shekarar 1866.

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