Donald Arden

Donald Seymour Arden (12 ga Afrilu 1916  - 18 ga Yulin 2014) ya kasance babban bishop na Anglican na Burtaniya da Australiya, kuma mai fafutuka don batutuwan adalci da daidaito.

 Ma'aikatar 
Arden ta yi karatu a Kwalejin St Peter, Adelaide, da Jami'ar Leeds. An naɗa shi dikon a 1939 kuma firist a 1940, bayan ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Tashin Matattu, Mirfield. Matsayinsa na farko sun kasance curacies a Hatcham da Nettleden. A shekara ta 1944, ya shiga Ofishin Jakadancin Afirka na Pretoria, daga ƙarshe ya zama Darakta na Ofishin Jakadun Usuthu a Swaziland.

Daga 1961 zuwa 1971, ya kasance Bishop na Nyasaland / Malawi - a matsayin Bishop na Nyesaland har zuwa samun 'yancin Malawi a 1964 kuma a matsayin Bishop of Malawi daga baya.Anglican Diocese of Southern Malawi – History Lokacin da diocese ya rabu a 1971, ya zama bishop na ɗaya daga cikin sabbin diocese guda biyu a matsayin Bishop na Kudancin Malawi. Har ila yau a wannan shekarar, ya zama Babban bishop na Afirka ta Tsakiya,  kuma ya rike mukamai biyu har sai ya yi ritaya a 1980.

Bayan ya bar babban bishop, Arden ya koma Burtaniya don ya zama firist mai kula da Ikilisiyar St Margaret, Uxbridge, inda ya yi aiki daga 1981 zuwa 1986.

Arden yana da ƙauna mai yawa ga Afirka kuma ya yi kamfen ba tare da gajiyawa ba don haƙƙin 'yan asalin Afirka. A cikin Cocin ya yi tanadi mai yawa don ilimin 'yan asalin Afirka firistoci, kuma ya yi kamfen don nadin bishops na asali. Ya kasance abin alfahari a gare shi cewa shi ne babban bishop na karshe na Afirka ta Tsakiya.

 Yin ritaya 
A lokacin da ya yi ritaya, Arden ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin firist mai daraja a Cocin St Alban a Arewacin Harrow, kuma a matsayin mataimakiyar bishop mai daraja a Diocese na London. Ya bar waɗannan matsayi a 2011 kuma ya koma Romsey, Hampshire, inda ya rayu shekaru na ƙarshe na rayuwarsa. A watan Disamba na shekara ta 2011, Arden ya yi bikin cika shekaru 50 na hidimar bishop tare da iyalinsa a St Paul's Cathedral, London. An tsarkake shi (a matsayin Bishop na Nyasaland) a ranar 30 ga Nuwamba 1961.[1]

Ya mutu a gida a Romsey, Hampshire, a ranar 18 ga Yuli 2014, yana da shekaru 98. Iyalinsa sun sanar da cewa za a ƙone shi a cikin akwatin gawa na ayaba na Afirka a ranar 31 ga Yulin 2014.

Matarsa Jane Arden ta mutu bayan shi. Ita ma'aikaciyar coci ce.

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 2014