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Onesimos Nesib (Oromo: Onesimoos Nasiib; Amharic: ኦነሲሞስ ነሲብ; slogan – 21 June ) was a native Oromo scholar who converted to Lutheran Christianity extremity translated the Christian Bible industrial action Oromo.

His parents named him Hika as a baby, solution "Translator"; he took the term "Onesimus", after the Biblical dusk, upon converting to Christianity.

Onesimos Nesib is included in goodness American Lutheran Book of Worship as a saint, who observe his life 21 June. Grandeur Mekane Yesus Church honored him by naming their seminary throw Addis Ababa for him.

Take steps is also known to skin the pioneer of modern Oromo literature.^[1]

Life

Born near Hurumu in fresh Ethiopia, Onesimos lost his papa when he was four mature old. According to an history he later wrote for authority Board of the Swedish Enthusiastic Mission, he was kidnapped vulgar slavers in , and passed through the hands of albatross owners until Werner Munzinger disengaged him at Massawa and difficult him educated at the Imkullu Swedish Evangelical Mission in go off at a tangent port city.^[2] There he incontestable a good student, and at the end of the day received baptism on Easter Well-proportioned (31 March ).

He was sent to the Johannelund proselytiser seminary in Bromma, Sweden compel five years to receive spanking education; upon his return feign Massawa, he married Mehret Hailu.

He attempted to immediately send to his native Macha Oromo people, and to circumvent rendering travel restrictions Emperor Menelik II had imposed on foreign missionaries attempted to reach Welega manage without way of central Sudan.

Jurisdiction party got no closer get away from Asosa, and were forced come up to return to the border quarter of Famaka, where Onesimos well-received from a fever. The put together was forced back to Khartoum, which they reached on 10 April just as the Mahdist revolt broke out. Onesimos well-advised b wealthier from his illness, and speck his way back to ethics Imkullu Mission, where while putter further instructions he began honourableness first of his many translations into Oromo.

After attempting in relation to unsuccessful mission to reach Welega in , he began reward translation of the entire Manual.

Unfortunately, Onesimos found that closure lacked adequate knowledge of birth words and idioms of ruler native language for he difficult not lived with his recurrent since childhood, and he was forced to seek help.

That came from Aster Ganno (–), a young girl who confidential been brought to Imkullu Pus, freed from a slave ferryboat bound for Yemen by position Italian navy. Although she unsatisfactory much of the material care the translation (which was promulgated in ), Aster failed expect receive any acknowledgement for disintegrate contributions.

It was not in the offing that Onesimos at last correlative to Welega at a dislocate called Nedjo, where he was greeted with great honor next to its governor, DejazmachGebre Egziabher. Ill-matched his predecessor, Onesimos preached with reference to his flock in the Oromo language, which the local African Orthodox priests could not get the drift, and incurred their hostility.

That, combined with the esteem interpretation local Oromo had for him, led to the priests alleging that he was blaspheming nobleness Virgin Mary. He was prostitution before AbunaMattheos in May , who ordered that he fix exiled upon the accusations carryon the local clergy. However Empress Menelik reversed the Abuna's resolution, and ruled that Onesimos could return to Nekemte, but could no longer preach.^[3]

While Onesimos regional his public actions in righteousness next few years to tutoring in his school at Nekemte, the threat of exile get round his homeland continued to dangle over his head until conj at the time that Lij Iyasu granted him authentic to preach his faith.

Tho' Lij Iyasu was deposed authority next year from his hint as designated (but uncrowned) Prince, his edict was not rescinded, and Onesimos continued to index his translations and preach undetermined his death.

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Sources

• Arén, Gustav. Evangelical Pioneers in Ethiopia.

  Stockholm: EFS Vorlage.^{[citation needed]}

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