Onesimos nesib biography of michael

Frumentius, Missionary (27 Oct 380)

(From the Lutheran Calendar)

Onesimos, was born in about 1855, in western Ethiopia. He was captured by slave traders and brought to the coast. There Swedish missionaries bought him, freed him, educated him, and converted him.

He belonged to the Oromo people, the largest linguistic group in Ethiopia, and he proceeded to translate the Bible into Oromo, and returned to his homeland to minister to the Oromo people.

Onesimos nesib biography of michael

He died there on 21 June 1931.

[NOTE: In earlier drafts of this BIO, I wrote "Galla" rather than "Oromo." However, I have been informed by a correspondent from the Oromo Liberation Front that the word "Galla" means "uncultured" in the Amhara language (that of the dominant minority in the country), and is rejected by the people in question.

I have not the expertise to evaluate the political situation in Ethiopia, but report that both terms are used, so that a reader who encounters a reference somewhere to the Galla, and anothe