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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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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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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Jerusalem University College (redirect from Bishop Gobat School)
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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