Isaac Oluwole

**Isaac Oluwole** (1852-1932) ya kasance bishop Na Najeriya na al'adun Saliyo da Egba . Ya kasance daya daga cikin fitattun 'yan gudun hijira daga mazaunin Saliyo a Legas a lokacin rabi na biyu na karni na sha tara. Daga 1879 zuwa 1893, ya kasance Shugaban Makarantar Grammar ta CMS, Legas kuma daga baya aka naɗa shi firist. An yi imanin cewa yana daya daga cikin ƙaunatattun malamai,  wanda zai iya haifar da shawararsa a matsayin bishop bayan wani babban dan takara mai tsattsauran ra'ayi, James Johnson, ya koka game da rashin ikon 'yan asalin Ikilisiyar Mishan.

## Rayuwa

An haifi Oluwole a Abeokuta ga mahaifin al'adun Ijebu kuma mahaifiyar daga Ilesha. Iyayensa mambobi ne na Cocin Anglican a Abeokuta a karkashin Henry Townsend . Ya rasa mahaifinsa yana da shekaru 13 kuma bisa ga bukatar Townsend, an sanya shi a ƙarƙashin kulawar Dokta Harrison, mai wa'azi na CMS wanda ke horar da wasu yara a yankin. Oluwole ya halarci makarantar firamare ta Anglican a Ake, Abeokuta kuma ya ci gaba da karatunsa a Cibiyar Horar da Anglican kuma a Abeokuta. Lokacin da aka koma makarantar zuwa Legas bayan zanga-zangar adawa da mishaneri a Abeokuta, Oluwole ya ci gaba da karatunsa a Legas. Bayan kammala karatunsa, ya koyar da shekaru hudu tare da aikin Anglican. 

A shekara ta 1876, bisa buƙatar Rev. J.B. Wood, an tallafa masa don halartar Kwalejin Fourah Bay a Sierra Leone inda ya ƙare ya sami digiri na farko. Tare da N.S. Davies da Obadiah Johnson, Oluwole na daga cikin dalibai na farko da suka sami digiri na farko daga makarantar a 1879 ta hanyar haɗin kwalejin tare da Jami'ar Durham. 

Bayan mutuwar Rev T. B. Macaulay, surukin Bishop Ajayi Crowther a 1879, Ikilisiyar Mishan ta zabi Oluwole a matsayin sabon Shugaban Makarantar Grammar, Legas. Kafin ya hau matsayin, an tura shi Ingila don ƙarin karatu kuma ya shafe lokaci ɗaya a Makarantar Monkton Combe,  kusa da Bath, Somerset wanda Revd Francis Pocock, tsohon curate na Bishop na Saliyo ya kafa a 1868.

An naɗa shi dikon a shekara ta 1881 kuma firist a shekara ta 1884. 

Bayan mutuwar Bishop Crowther, CMS ta zabi wani ɗan Ingilishi a matsayin sabon Bishop don riƙe taken Bishop na Yammacin Equatorial Afirka kuma ta zabi mataimakan bishops biyu na Afirka. An sanya Rev. J. Sidney Hill a matsayin bishop kuma bayan aikin farko da Hill, Oluwole da Rev. Charles Philips suka yi an zabi su don zama Mataimakin Bishops. 

A shekara ta 1893, an tsarkake Oluwole a matsayin Mataimakin Bishop na Yammacin Afirka  a St Paul's Cathedral, London, Ludgate Hill a ranar 29 ga Yuni, 1893 kuma daga baya aka ba shi digiri na likita daga Jami'ar Durham. 

A ranar 13 ga watan Disamba na shekara ta 1893, Oluwole, Hill, Philips da wasu firistoci 12 na Ingila sun isa Legas. Hill da matarsa sun mutu jim kadan bayan haka: Hill a ranar 6 ga Janairu 1894, bayan sun kwashe kwanaki 24 kawai a Legas. An zabi Herbert Tugwell a matsayin wanda zai maye gurbin Hill.

A cikin 1920, an raba Diocese na Equatorial Africa zuwa kashi biyu, Legas da Diocese a kan Nijar. An canza taken Oluwole zuwa Mataimakin Bishop na Diocese na Legas .

Oluwole ya yi aure a 1888 kuma yana da 'ya'ya shida, uku daga cikinsu sun mutu kafin 1932. Ɗansa Isaac Ladipo Oluwole ya yi karatun likitanci a Jami'ar Glasgow inda ya kammala karatun MB ChB a shekarar 1918. 

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