James Hannington (September 3, 1847 - October 29, 1885) is a British Anglican missionary, the first Anglican bishop in East Africa. The Anglican Church is revered as a martyr and saint.
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Biography
He was born in Harterspoint in a fairly wealthy family - his father was the owner of a warehouse and several shops. From early childhood, Hannigton was distinguished by a love of natural science and adventure, which cost him the loss of his thumb from careless handling of gunpowder. Until the age of thirteen, he received a home education, then was sent to study at Brighton Temple School, but did not make much progress there and left it at the age of fifteen, having started working in his father's office in Brighton . However, he did not have the desire and ability to work as a clerk, and most of his time he spent on a steam yacht, traveling around Europe, and also enrolled in the 1st Sussex Volunteer Artillery Regiment, where he soon rose to the rank of battery commander, and later received the rank of major.
Ministry
At twenty-one, he decided to become a priest and entered St. Mary's Hall in Oxford , where he had a great influence on his fellow students, but he again turned out to be a useless student, and in 1870 he practically stopped his studies and retired to the small village of Martinho in Devon , where he indulged in reading, traveling on steep cliffs and caves, and collecting eggs for gulls. In 1872, however, he was greatly impressed by the death of his mother; under the influence of this event, he returned to study, received a bachelor of arts degree and in 1873 was ordained a deacon and sent to the Trentisho branch in Devon, and in 1875 he was given the position of vicar in his native Harterspoint in St. George's Church.
In early 1882, Hannington heard about the killing of two missionaries on the shores of Lake Victoria in East Africa, and volunteered to the Missionary Society as a missionary in Africa. On May 17, 1882, he led a group of six missionaries on a ship to Zanzibar , and from there went to Uganda, but, almost immediately seriously ill with fever and dysentery, he was forced to return to England in 1883. Having recovered his health, he was appointed bishop of East Equatorial Africa in June 1884 and again took a trip there in January 1885, stopping in Palestine on his way, and visited many settlements in the area on his way to Freretown near Mombasa . Hannington was eager to build a new route to Uganda , which is why, accompanied by Christian porters, he went to the kingdom of Buganda to the shores of Victoria, which he safely reached. His arrival, however, gave rise to distrust among the locals, and by order of King Mwanga he was settled in a dirty hut, swarming with rats and parasites. Eight days later, all of his companions were killed, and he himself was executed on October 29, 1885: he was pierced with spears on both sides of the body. His last words were believed to be "Go tell Mwanga that I bought the road to Uganda with my blood." His notes on Africa were published in 1888.
Bibliography
- Joyce Reason. Bishop Jim: The story of James Hannington. London, 1955. Reprinted by James Clark Company, 1978. ISBN 0718823877 ISBN 978-0718823870
- This article (section) contains text taken (translated) from the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica , which went into the public domain .
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.