Ini Kopuria (died June 1945) was a Solomon Islands police officer who founded the Melanesian Brotherhood in 1925. He and the Bishop of Melanesia, John Manwaring Steward, formed a band of brothers (known in the Mota language as Ira Reta Tasiu) to take the gospel of Jesus to non-Christian areas of Melanesia.
The Anglican Church of Melanesia and Church of England commemorate Kopuria on their calendars of saints. Ini is remembered in the Church of England with a commemoration on 6 June.[1]
See also
References
- ^ "The Calendar". The Church of England. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
External links
- Material by and about the Melanesian Brotherhood from Project Canterbury
- The Brothers: The Story of the Native Brotherhood of Melanesia, by Margaret Lycett 1935 account.
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