Gudina Tumsa

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Gudina Tumsa (* 1929 in Boji , Oromia , Ethiopia ; † July 28, 1979 ) was an Ethiopian theologian and general secretary of the Mekane Yesus Church .

Life

Tumsa helped found the Council for Cooperation of Churches in Ethiopia , an ecumenical council, and was elected its first chairman.

Tumsa was arrested for the first time in 1977 and was only released after pressure from abroad. The second arrest took place on July 28, 1979. He was murdered by Derg soldiers and was called the Dietrich Bonhoeffer of Africa in the following years .

After his death and inspired by his life, the Gudina Tumsa Foundation was established in 1992 and the Gudina Tumsa Theological Forum was launched in 2008.

On March 18, 2013, Federal President Joachim Gauck visited Tumsa's grave.

literature

  • Gudina Tumsa Foundation: The life and ministry of Gudina Tumsa, General Secretary, Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY): lectures and discussions, First Missiological Seminar, 2001. WDL-Publishers, Hamburg, 2007.
  • Gunnar Hasselblatt: Conversation with Gudina . Radius Verlag, Stuttgart, 1980.
  • Burkhard Weitz: Relentlessly against poverty. Gudina Tumsa could not impress racists, especially not the socialist dictator Mengistu, in: Chrismon 9/2013, p. 37.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Voice of an Ethiopian Prophet. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 4, 2013 ; accessed on March 19, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dacb.org
  2. ^ Gudina Tumsa awarded the Christ Lux Mundi. Retrieved March 19, 2013 .
  3. ^ The Man & The Foundation. Retrieved March 19, 2013 .
  4. ^ Gutina Tumsa Theological Forum. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 21, 2013 ; accessed on March 19, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.luthersem.edu
  5. ↑ Gauck visits the grave of the Ethiopian church prince Gudina Tumsa. Retrieved March 19, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tumsa, Gudina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ethiopian theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Boji , Oromia , Ethiopia
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1979