Rota Waitoa

Rota Waitoa (? - 22 ga watan Yulin shekarar 1866) wani limami ne na Anglican na New Zealand, na zuriyar Māori . Waitoa da aka gano tare da Ngāti Raukawa iwi . An haife shi a Waitoa, Waikato, New Zealand .  Tsarkakewar Waitoa a matsayin mai hidima a St Paul's, Auckland, a ranar 22 ga Mayu 1853, ita ce tsarkakewa ta farko ta Māori a dikon cocin Anglican.

An yi masa baftisma Rota (Lot) a ranar 17 ga Oktoban shekarar 1841 ta Rev. Octavius Hadfield a Waikanae Missionary Society (CMS). Lokacin da Bishop George Selwyn ya ziyarci a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1842 Waitoa ya ba da kansa don ya bi shi a kan tafiyarsa zuwa Aikin Te Waimate.

Daga shekarar 1843 ya halarci Kwalejin St John a aikin Te Waimate sannan a Auckland lokacin da Bishop Selwyn ya koma St John's College zuwa Tamaki . Ya zama mai kula da ƙaramar sashin makarantar maza ta Māori kuma malamin katikist"Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific" (PDF). 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.

A shekara ta 1848 an tura shi Te Kawakawa (Te Araroa), Gabashin Cape . Ya yi adawa da nadin nasa saboda ya yi la'akari da zagi ga mutuncinsa ya sami malamin ilimin Māori wanda ya kalli mutanensa a matsayin abokan gaba masu tsanani. Koyaya Te Houkamau daga ƙarshe ya yarda da Waitoa kuma Te Houkamaun ya miƙa kansa a matsayin dan takara don baftisma.

An naɗa Waitoa a matsayin mai hidima a Cocin St Paul, Auckland, a ranar 22 ga Mayu 1853 kuma an ba shi lasisi ga gundumar mishan ta Te Kawakawa .  Bishop William Williams ne ya naɗa shi firist a ranar 4 ga Maris 1860,   kuma ya nada shi zuwa Te Kawakawa. Raniera Kawhia ya shiga Waitoa a Te Kawakawa bayan an naɗa shi dikon a watan Fabrairun 1860. 

A cikin 1865 akwai malamai goma sha huɗu - shida na Turai da takwas Māori - a cikin Diocese na Waiapu . Māori sun kasance: a Tokomaru, Matiaha Pahewa; a Wairoa, Tamihana Huata; a Turanga, Hare Tawhaa; a Waiapu, Rota Waitoa, Raniera Kawhia da Mohi Turei; a Table Cape, Watene Moeka; a Maketu, Ihaia Te Ahu . 

Waitoa ya yi tsayayya da Ƙungiyar Sarkin Māori, wanda shine hanyar samun hadin kan Māori don dakatar da warewar ƙasa a lokacin saurin karuwar yawan jama'a ta masu mulkin mallaka na Turai. Ya kuma yi adawa da ƙungiyar Pai Mārire (wanda aka fi sani da Hauhau) lokacin da ta sami tasiri a Gabashin Gabas, kuma a cikin 1865-66 an tilasta masa barin aikin Te Kawakawa na ɗan gajeren lokaci. A cikin 1865 Waitoa ya kasance a Waiapū . 

A shekara ta 1866 ya fadi daga doki. Waitoa ya mutu a ranar 22 ga Yuli 1866 kuma an binne shi a makabartar St Stephen, Alkalai Bay, Auckland

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