- James Hannington
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name= James Hannington
birth_date= birth date|1847|9|3|df=yes
death_date= death date and age|df=yes|1885|10|29|1847|9|3
feast_day= 29 October
venerated_in=Anglican Communion
caption=James Hannington
birth_place=Hurstpierpoint ,Sussex
death_place=Busoga ,Uganda
titles=Bishop and Martyr
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issues= Anglican PortalJames Hannington (
3 September 1847 -29 October 1885 ) was anAnglican missionary ,saint andmartyr .Life
Hannington was born at
Hurstpierpoint inSussex ,England , on3 September 1847 . A poor scholar, he left school at fifteen to work in his father'sBrighton counting house . At twenty-one, Hannington decided to pursue a clerical career, and entered university at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, where he again proved to be a desultory student. In 1872, the death of his mother spurred a change in Hannington's life: he was awarded hisB.A. , and on1 March 1874 was ordained as a deacon, and took charge of the small parish ofTrentishoe inDevon .Around 1882, Hannington heard of the murder of two missionaries on the shores of the
Victoria Nyanza . This led to him offering himself to theChurch Missionary Society , and he left England on17 May , setting sail forZanzibar on29 June , as the head of a party of six missionaries. Crippled by fever anddysentery , Hannington was forced to return to England in 1883.In June 1884, having recovered, he was ordained bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and in January 1885, Hannington again departed for Africa. After arriving at Freretown, near
Mombasa ,Kenya , he decided to focus on opening a new route toUganda : together with his team, he safely reached a spot near Victoria Nyanza on21 October , but his arrival had not gone unnoticed, and under the orders of King Mwanga II ofBuganda , the missionaries were imprisoned inBusoga by Basoga chiefs.After eight days of captivity, by order from King Mwanga II, Hannington's men were killed, and on
29 October 1885 , Hannington himself was stabbed in both sides. As he died, his alleged last words to the soldiers who killed him were: "Go, tell Mwanga I have purchased the road to Uganda with my blood."Joseph Mukasa , a Roman Catholic priest and an official at Mwanga's court, rebuked the king for the deed, and was beheaded for it. Hannington and his companions were among the firstMartyrs of Uganda . Hannington's feast day in theChurch of England is October 29. Hannington's dedication stone, erected in his memory along with the church in 1938, bears the inscription "Thou hast turned my heaviness into joy".ee also
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Anglican Church of Kenya
*Anglican Church of Tanzania
*Church of Uganda
*Bishop of Uganda
*Bishop Hannington Memorial Church External links
* [http://www.bhmc.org.uk Bishop Hannington Memorial Church, Hove, UK] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/exmoor_climber/1304098226/in/set-72157600715370909 Hanningtons Caves. Trentishoe]
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