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Samuel Gbonda

anglican bishop

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ30680909 ↗
Source-derived summary

Samuel Gbonda was Bishop of Bo from 1994 until 2008.

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The public source identifies “Samuel Gbonda” as anglican bishop. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Samuel, Gbonda and anglican.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Samuel, Gbonda and anglican providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q30680909. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Samuel Gbonda” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.