Abraham Faure (29 August 1795 – 28 March 1875) was a clergyman and author from

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, part of what later became South Africa.

Church career

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Born in

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, Faure was educated in both England and the Netherlands and, with a strong

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background, in 1818 he was inducted as a

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(minister) in the

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, Cape Colony. In 1822 he was called to the '' Groote Kerk in Cape Town'' ^{( AF)}, where he played a significant role in the first

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there in 1824. He remained a member of the church executive for 43 years. He married Geertruida Isabella Caldwell. His family was heavily involved in the Church and his relative Philip Eduard Faure was also a Doctor of Divinities and a Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Synod.

Political involvement

Politically Faure remained loyal to the British Crown on grounds that the Crown was part of the God-willed social order, expressing disapproval of the Dutch farmers who left the Cape Colony at the time of the

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. His sermon on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Dutch settlers under

van Riebeeck Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck (21 April 1619 – 18 January 1677) was a Dutch navigator and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. Life Early life Jan van Riebeeck was born in Culemborg, as the son of a surgeon. He ...

reflected social responsibility, this time the responsibility of the

for bringing the gospel to the

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slaves and the indigenous population.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Faure, Abraham Cape Colony people 1795 births 1875 deaths Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa clergy Huguenots