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Jérôme Owono-Mimboe

Cameroonian Roman Catholic bishop (1933–2016)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ1715005 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jérôme Owono-Mimboe (4 February 1933 – 15 July 2016) was a Cameroonian Roman Catholic bishop.

Ordained to the priesthood on 22 July 1962, Owono-Mimboe was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Obala, Cameroon on 3 July 1987 and retired 3 December 2009.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jérôme Owono-Mimboe” is cameroonian Roman Catholic bishop (1933–2016). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jérôme, Owono-Mimboe and Cameroonian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933, 2016, 1962, 1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1933-02-04. For this dossier, Jérôme, Owono-Mimboe and Cameroonian is the immediate research focus.
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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 Jul 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1715005. VIAF identifies the subject as 24249628. The Library of Congress control number is no2001044795. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1933, 2016, 1962 and 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jérôme Owono-Mimboe” 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.