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    Samuel Gobat (26 January 1799 – 11 May 1879) was a Swiss Calvinist who became an Anglican missionary in Africa and was the Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem...
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  • Maria Gobat (1813–1879), Swiss missionary; wife of Samuel Gobat Mayan Smith-Gobat (b. 1979), professional big-wall climber from New Zealand Samuel Gobat (1799–1879)...
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    Peace Bureau. Gobat was born on 21 May 1843 at Tramelan, Switzerland. He was the son of a Protestant pastor and the nephew of Samuel Gobat, a missionary...
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    Maria Gobat (9 November 1813 – 1 August 1879) was a Swiss missionary "known for her gracious hospitality". For 45 years, as the wife of Samuel Gobat, she...
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    the Jaffa Gate opposite King David's citadel. Consecrated by Bishop Samuel Gobat in 21 January 1849, it is the oldest Protestant church building in the...
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  • son, Yaner, who did so. According to the early 19th century missionary Samuel Gobat, their neighbours considered the Qemant boudas, or sorcerers, along with...
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  • 488f Gobat, Samuel (1969) [1851]. Journal of Three years' Residence in Abyssinia. New York: Negro Universities Press. p. 429f. Although Gobat calls him...
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  • characters. Prior to his elevation, he had been living as a monk in Waldebba. Samuel Gobat, a near-contemporary of Iyoas, states he was "efficiently sustained by...
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  • represented by the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and The Middle East. In 1848 Samuel Gobat, Bishop of Jerusalem, opened the cemetery and dedicated it as ecumenical...
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    missionary Samuel Gobat, the Christians considered the Jews boudas, or sorcerers, and they often fell victim to marauding warlords, as Gobat reported "Their...
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  • title and seal. Existing letters include a packet of letters sent to Samuel Gobat in April 1848, who had by that time become the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem...
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  • 1830, and purportedly a member of the Solomonic dynasty. According to Samuel Gobat, who met with Gigar (whom he called "Guigar") while a missionary in Ethiopia...
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    Gehenna). The campus grounds were formerly the Bishop Gobat School (est. 1847 by Samuel Gobat), which moved in 1853 in the building erected on unused...
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  • of the Jaffa Mission Hospital. Bishop Samuel Gobat established a school in 1847, later called the Bishop Gobat School and led by Hanna Dimishky. The school...
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    Ethiopian Falashmura to Israel". Times of Israel. Retrieved 2018-12-01. Samuel Gobat, Journal of a three years' residence in Abyssinia: in furtherance of...
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    church of St. Mary a land grant in 1794. According to the missionary Samuel Gobat, in the early 19th century Aksum was economically well off, as it was...
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  • Ethiopia in 1770 claimed to see lingering signs of Heyling's influence. Samuel Gobat likewise, in 1830, found Heyling's translation of the New Testament still...
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    Johann Martin Flad, The Falashas (Jews) of Abyssinia, W. Macintosh, 1869 Samuel Gobat, Journal of a three years' residence in Abyssinia: in furtherance of...
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    under the leadership of the Rev John Zeller and consecrated by Bishop Samuel Gobat. In the late 19th century and the first years of the 20th century, Nazareth...
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  • Samuel Gobat and studied Aramaic and Arabic. Later on, he was ordained by the Church of England. CMS already sent his first missionaries Samuel Gobat...
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  • present in Sudan, Tanzania, and among the Berber people in Morocco. Samuel Gobat argued that some Beta Israel rejected the belief as a Christian superstition...
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    American Palestine Exploration Society, the Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem Samuel Gobat, who presided over the joint bishopric for Anglicans, Lutherans and Calvinists...
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    Abraham's Vineyard (Kerem Avraham), the Protestant school built by Bishop Samuel Gobat on Mount Zion; the Russian Compound; the Mishkenot Sha'ananim houses:...
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  • Maryam lived for several years after his deposition, as the missionary Samuel Gobat mentions that he met Baeda Maryam, his wife and children in Adigrat during...
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  • buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem. He was succeeded by Bishop Samuel Gobat. He had nine daughters (Sarah Jane Isabella Wolff, Fanny Vincent Steele...
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    church, Blyth founded the Jerusalem and the East Mission. Under Bishop Samuel Gobat, relations with the Eastern Orthodox Church had become strained. Blyth...
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    as well as the posting of two missionaries to Ethiopia (Abyssinia), Samuel Gobat (later the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem) and Christian Kugler arrived...
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    The friend of the Christians has fallen at Daga Shaha. — Quoted in Samuel Gobat, Journal of Three years' Residence in Abyssinia, 1851 (New York: Negro...
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  • Ethiopia. He was the brother of his predecessor Ras Yimam. The missionary Samuel Gobat had a low opinion of Marye. He wrote in his journal, "A character worse...
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    History of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie University, 1968), p. 520 Samuel Gobat, Journal of Three years' Residence in Abyssinia, 1851 (New York: Negro...
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