Onesimus, Sweden.
Born Nesib in Nekemte, Ethiopia, and sold as a slave at age 4. One decade later, in 1870, a French vice consul bought Nesib’s freedom and left him in Sweden. Two years later he was baptized Onesimus. From 1876-81, he studied theology in Sweden.
He returned to Nekemte as a missionary in 1904 and lived there as a pastor until his death in 1931, aged 75.















