Ini Kopuria 5538289 207981887 2008-04-24T23:01:30Z 194.29.195.208 [[Category:Anglican missionaries]], [[Category:Members of Anglican religious orders]] {{Anglican Portal}} '''Ini Kopuria''' (died 1945), a police officer from Maravovo, [[Guadalcanal]], [[Solomon Islands]] formed the [[Melanesian Brotherhood]] in [[1925]]. He and the [[Bishop of Melanesia]], the Right Reverend [[John Manwaring Steward]], realised Ini's dream by forming a band of brothers (known in the [[Mota (language)|Mota]] language as 'Ira Reta Tasiu') to take the [[Gospel]] of [[Jesus Christ]] to the non-Christian areas of [[Melanesia]]. He is commemorated in the [[Calendar of saints|calendars of saints]] of the [[Church of the Province of Melanesia]] and of the [[Church of England]]. == References == *[http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/lycett_brothers1935/ The Brothers: The Story of the Native Brotherhood of Melanesia, by Margaret Lycett] 1935 account. ==See also== *[[Calendar of saints (Church of the Province of Melanesia)]] *[[Calendar of saints (Church of England)]] [[Category:Melanesia|Brotherhood]] [[Category:Anglican missionaries]] [[Category:Members of Anglican religious orders]] {{anglican-stub}} {{Solomons-bio-stub}}