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| death_place = Bulakan, Bulacan, Philippine Islands }} Nicolas Villegas Zamora (10 September 187514 September 1914) was a Methodist minister who is credited with the foundation of the first indigenous evangelical church in the Philippines, known as Iglesia Evangelica Metodista en las Islas Filipinas.〔IEMELIF, 31.〕 Zamora is also recognized as the first Filipino Protestant minister in the Philippines.〔Sitoy, 9.〕 == Early life and career == Zamora was born of Paulino Zamora and Estefania Villegas in Binondo, Manila on 10 September 1875.〔Trinidad, 52.〕 Paulino Zamora was regarded as the first Filipino Protestant in the Philippines.〔Trinidad, 48.〕 Nicolas Zamora was grandnephew of Father Jacinto Zamora, one of the three priests known as Gomburza executed after being implicated to the 1872 Cavite mutiny.〔 He was first educated under Father Pedro Serrano of Intramuros, and then pursued higher education at Ateneo Municipal de Manila with the aid of his godfather Pablo Zamora. From Ateneo he had earned his Bachelor of Arts degree.〔 Zamora then took up law as his master's degree prerequisite for priesthood at the University of Santo Tomas, but his schooling was interrupted by the advent of the Philippine Revolution in 1896. Meanwhile, his father was exiled by the Spanish in suspicion of being involved in the Revolution.〔Trinidad, 54.〕 During the Revolution, he served as ''Teniente Mayor'' (Chief Lieutenant) under the command of General Gregorio del Pilar. By this time, Zamora had been secretly reading the Bible. This convinced him to the faith of his father. Thus, after the return of his father from a two-year exile (in 1898), he and his father began preaching the Gospel even before the arrival of American Protestant missionaries.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicolas Zamora」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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