Ihaia Te Ahu

Ihaia Te Ahu (  – 1895) sanannen malami ne kuma ɗan mishan na New Zealand. Daga zuriyar Māori, ya danganta da Te Uri Taniwha hapū na Ngāpuhi iwi. An haife shi a Ōkaihau, Northland, New Zealand. 

A cikin kimanin shekarar ta 1832 ya halarci Kerikeri Mission Station na Church Missionary Society (CMS). A cikin Shekara ta 1832 ya tafi tare da Rev. Thomas Chapman don zama a Ofishin Jakadancin Rotorua na CMS.  Daga kimanin 1835 ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin malami tare da Rev. Chapman a Rotorua kuma daga 1845 yana karbar hidimar Lahadi lokacin da Chapman bai kasance ba.

Ya auri Rangirauaka na Ngati Riripo hapū na Te Arawa iwi a ranar 9 ga Mayun shekara ta 1841;  A wannan rana aka yi wa Rangirauaki baftisma Katarina (Catherine) Hapimana (Chapman) da Rev. Alfred Nesbit Brown a Tauranga, kuma aka yi wa Ihaia (Ishaya).  typeof="mw:Extension/ref">[./Ihaia_Te_Ahu#cite_note-I1-2 [2]]  A watan Satumbar 1846, Ihaia, matarsa da 'ya'yansa biyu sun koma Maketu, kusa da Tauranga kuma a 1851 Chapman ya koma zama a Maketu.

A shekara ta 1857 ya fara horo na tauhidi a karkashin Rev. Brown a Ofishin Jakadancin Tauranga. A shekara ta 1858 ya halarci Makarantar St. Stephen, Auckland. A ranar 3 ga Nuwamba 1861 Bishop William Williams ya naɗa shi a matsayin mai hidima.   A wannan shekarar ne CMS ta nada shi don jagorantar Ofishin Jakadancin Maketu, bayan Chapman ya koma Auckland.  Ya yi aiki a cikin diocese na Tauranga da Maketu har zuwa 1881, lokacin da ya koma zama a Rotorua. Ya taimaka wajen gina Cocin St. Faith, Rotorua, wanda Bishop Edward Stuart ya tsarkake a ranar 15 ga Maris 1885.

Daga shekarar 1882 zuwa 1889 ya kasance mataimaki na makiyaya na Ohinemutu. Daga kusan c. 1889 zuwa 1892 ya yi aiki a St. Stephen College, Aucklandu.

A shekara ta 1892 ya yi ritaya ya zauna a Kaikohe, inda ya mutu a ranar 7 ga Yulin 1895.

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Category:Mutuwan  1895