Samuel Goba ( him. Samuel Gobat ; 1799-1879) - a religious figure of Swiss origin, a Protestant bishop in Jerusalem .
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Biography
Samuel Goba was born on January 26, 1799 in Switzerland ( CrΓ©mines ).
On behalf of the London Missionary Society, Goba acted from 1826 to 1832 in Cairo and Abyssinia ; translated the Gospel into the Amgar language [4] .
After a second trip (1835β36) to Abyssinia, Goba was sent to the island of Malta , where he translated the Bible into oriental languages [4] .
Appointed in 1846 by the Evangelical Bishop of Jerusalem, S. Goba founded evangelical communities, schools, orphanages, hospitals in Jerusalem , Bethlehem , Jaffa , Nazareth [4] .
Samuel Goba died May 11, 1879 in the city of Jerusalem.
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Literature
- Thiersch , "S. Gobat (1884).