Alison Cheek

Alison Mary Cheek (11 ga Afrilu, 1927 - 1 ga Satumba, 2019) ta kasance shugabar addinin Amurka da aka haifa a Australia. Ta kasance daya daga cikin mata na farko da aka naɗa a cikin Ikilisiyar Episcopal a Amurka kuma mace ta farko da ta yi bikin Eucharist a fili a cikin wannan ƙungiya.

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Alison Mary Western  a ranar 11 ga Afrilu, 1927  a Adelaide, Kudancin Australia ga Hedley da Dora (Whiting) Western. Mahaifinta manomi ne na 'ya'yan itace, kuma mahaifiyarta mai kula da gida ce. Yammacin ta kammala karatu daga Jami'ar Adelaide a 1947  kuma ta auri malaminta na tattalin arziki, Bruce Cheek.  Ma'auratan sun koma Boston don zumunci a Jami'ar Harvard sannan suka koma Ostiraliya bayan shekaru biyu. Sun koma Amurka a shekara ta 1957 lokacin da Bankin Duniya ya hayar da mijin Cheek a Washington, DC. Cheek ya zama minista a majami'u da yawa a yankin.

 Hanyar tsarkakewa a matsayin firist na Episcopal 
Bayan kammala karatunta daga makarantar firamare, an hayar ta a matsayin minista a Ikilisiyar Kristi a Iskandariya, inda take kula da hidimar fastoci kuma an ba ta damar yin wa'azi sau da yawa. Daga nan sai ta fara horo da aiki tare da Cibiyoyin Ba da Shawara da Ba da Shawarawa na Babban Washington da Cibiyar Nazarin Halitta ta Washington, ta koma St. Alban don ci gaba da hidimar fastoci a matsayin mace. A ƙarshe, duk da haka, shugabanta ya ƙarfafa ta shiga tsarin tsarkakewa a cikin Diocese na Virginia, kuma an naɗa ta a matsayin mace ta farko a Kudu a ranar 29 ga Janairu, 1972 . 

 Yunkurin fafutuka 
Cheek ta kasance mai aiki a cikin motsi na mata firistoci a Ostiraliya. Ta kuma zama mai aiki a cikin kungiyoyi masu banƙyama kamar ƙungiyar gay, ƙungiyar baƙar fata, da mata a cikin talauci, suna mannewa a gefen coci don yin hidimarta.

 Mutuwa 
Cheek ta mutu a gidanta a Brevard, North Carolina, a ranar 1 ga Satumba, 2019.Genzlinger, N. (2019). Alison cheek, pioneering episcopal priest, is dead at 92. New York: New York Times Company. 

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 2019
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1927