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Name: CEDERQUIST, Karl (Rev.)

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Nee: original surname Jansson or Johansson

Birth Date: 28 Oct 1854 Fellingsbro, Sweden

Death Date: 11 Nov 1919 Addis Ababa

Nationality: Swedish

First Date: 1893

Profession: For many years he was at the Swedish Mission, Kismayu.

Area: Lamu, Kismayu

Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, North

General Information:

North - Fatherland Association - arr. Lamu Dec 1893 to set up mission to Boran Gallas but country unsettled & still at Lamu July 1894; Kismayu June 1899, Aug 1900, 1904
North - arr. Lamu with Nils Hylander & H. Riggers to set up mission to Boran Gallas 12-12-1893
[Is this the same man?: In 1904 Pastor Karl Cederqvist – as the first Swedish missionary ever – reached Addis Ababa and started a school and a medical clinic. ... In 1945, Sweden granted Ethiopia a loan of sek 5 million, which made it pos- sible for Emperor Haile Selassie to employ more Swedish experts to promote development in Ethiopia.
en.sewasew.com/p/cederqvist-karl for his career in Ethiopia. As a young man Cederquist worked as a farmhand and carpenter’s apprentice till he took up theological training. He studied at the Johannelunds mission institute in the years 1879-85 where he became a close friend of the Ethiopian missionary Onesimos Nasib. In 1885 he was ordained and a year later sent as a seaman’s pastor to Hamburg and in 1888 to Liverpool and Grimsby. The Evangeliska Fosterlands Stiftelsen called Cederquist to lead their 4th Oromo expedition in 1892. Before his departure he took a course in medical training at Livingstone College, Leyton in UK. The missionaries arrived at Lamu in December 1893 but their initial plan to reach the Borana West of Lake Rudolph failed and the attempt was abandoned in 1895. Cederquist spent three challenging years in the mission stations at Emkullu and Kismayu. Finally he initiated the Juba mission in 1898. The plan was abandoned in 1902 after which he returned to Sweden. Thereafter he worked in Addis Ababa.

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