Agapius Honcharenko

Reverend Agapius Honcharenko (Ukrainian; 31 ga Agusta, 1832 - 5 ga Mayu, 1916; ainihin sunan Andrii Humnytsky (Андрій Гумницький),  aka Ahapii ko Ahapius) ya kasance mai kishin ƙasa na Ukraine kuma Kirista na Orthodox da aka yi gudun hijira. Ya kasance fitaccen malami, mai ba da agaji, kuma mai fafutukar kare hakkin ɗan adam na farko.

An haife shi ga fitaccen dangin Cossack (shi ne zuriyar Ivan Bohun) a cikin Kryva, gundumar Tarascha, a yankin Kyiv, Honcharenko shine ɗan siyasa na farko na Yukren da ya isa Amurka.  Ya sauke karatu daga Kyiv a fannin tauhidin Seminary kuma ya shiga Kiev Pechersk Lavra. An aika shi zuwa Atina a shekara ta 1857 don ya zama shugaban cocin ofishin jakadancin, inda ya fara ba da gudummawar labarai da ba a san sunansa ba ga Kolokol na birnin Landan na Alexander Herzen wanda ya yi kira ga ’yantar da ’yan sandan Rasha kuma ya yi tir da nasa coci saboda goyon bayan irin wannan rashin daidaito na tsarin. Waɗannan labaran sun haifar da tarzoma sosai a Rasha, kuma bayan an shafe watanni ana ƙoƙarin tantance ainihin marubucin, hukumomin Rasha sun gano shi kuma suka kama shi a shekara ta 1860. Ya sami damar tserewa daga kurkukun Rasha da ke Konstantinoful ta hanyar canza kansa a matsayin Baturke da fita daga ƙofar gida. 

Bayan ya tsere, ya yi tafiya zuwa Landan don komawa cikin ma'aikatan Kolokol har sai da jaridar ta daina bugawa a kan 'yantar da ma'aikatan, sannan ya sake komawa Athens. Bayan haka, ya yi balaguro da yawa zuwa Siriya, Kudus, Masar da Turkiyya. Yayin da yake Alexandria, ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da furci ga Leo Tolstoy.  Komawa London, ya sadu da ɗan ƙasar Italiya Giuseppe Mazzini, wanda ya shawarce shi ya yi hijira zuwa Amurka, wanda ya yi a shekarar 1865. Bayan isowarsa, ya zagaya ƙasar, da farko zuwa Philadelphia inda ya sadu da matar da za ta zama matarsa. A cikin Birnin New York, ya kafa Liturgy na Orthodox na farko a Amurka a wajen Alaska.  Ya kuma taimaka wajen kafa cocin Orthodox na Girka a New Orleans kuma ya yi aiki a Alaska kafin daga bisani ya zauna a San Francisco. Kafin ya yi hijira, ya canza sunansa don kare iyalinsa daga tsanantawa saboda rubuce-rubucensa na adawa da Rasha.  Ta hanyar tafiye-tafiyensa, ya zama abokai tare da manyan Amurkawa, daga cikinsu akwai Eugene Schuyler, Horace Greeley, Charles R. Dana, Hamilton Fish, Henry Wager Halleck, William H. Seward da Henry George. 

Mutumin da ke magana a bayyane, Honcharenko an san shi da yin tir da cocinsa a bayyane saboda cin hanci da rashawa, lalata, da sauran gazawar, har ya kai ga an ayyana shi a matsayin mai rarrabuwa. Yayinda yake zaune a San Francisco, ya buga The Alaska Herald, wanda aka yi niyya ga mazaunan Rasha na Alaska, daga shekarun 1868 zuwa 1872, wanda ya haɗa da kari na Rasha da Ukrainian. Ƙarin Ukrainian mai taken Svoboda (Свобода: Freedom) ita ce jaridar farko ta yaren Ukrainian a Amurka. 

Bayan kafa wata gona, "Ukraina Ranch", dake Hayward, California,  a cikin shekarar 1873, ya ci gaba da buga littattafan siyasa, wanda aka yi fasakwaurinsa zuwa cikin Czarist Rasha. Waɗannan ayyuka sun sa shi ya zama ƙaya a gefen ’yan Rasha masu goyon bayan Tsarist, waɗanda suka kira rubuce-rubucensa “abin da ke tuƙi.   na rabin mahaukacin tsoho."  biyayya Honcharenko ga Narod ya tada sha'awar raƙuman ruwa na Yukren zuwa Arewacin Amirka, yana ƙarfafa ƙungiyar ' yan Ukrain a Kanada don kafa mulkin mallaka a kan gonarsa a shekarar 1900-1902., mai suna "'Yan uwan Ukrainian." A cewar Jars Balan na Jami'ar Alberta, "wasu membobin kungiyar sun ga gwajin gamayya a matsayin haɗin gwiwa, wasu kuma suna ganin 'yan uwantakar Cossack ne, wasu kuma suna ganin kamar wata kungiya ce. 

A cikin shekarar 1890, Charles Howard Shinn ya yi hira da Honcharenko da Ƙungiyar Kirista.  Ya bayyana gidansu da tarihinsa. Honcharenko da matarsa Albina an binne su a gona, wanda yanzu aka yi rajista a matsayin California Historical Landmark #1025, wanda ke Garin Regional Park kusa da Jami'ar Jihar California, Hayward.  Alamar Tarihi ta Jihar California  Garin Regional Park  Ukraina an buɗe shi a nan ranar Asabar, 15 ga watan Mayu, 1999, kuma an sadaukar da ita ga al'ummar Ukrainian Amurkawa na arewacin California ya ɗauki sama da shekaru 30 don al'ummar Ukrainian gida don sadaukar da tsohon gidan Honcharenko don girmama shi.  Shafin yana dawwama Rev. Agapius Honcharenko, yana haɗa rayuwar ruhaniya mai zurfi tare da ƙaunarsa ga duniya.

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