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Josephine Laffin

Australian historian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ58008149 ↗
Source-derived summary

Josephine Dene Laffin is an Australian historian and a senior lecturer in church history at Australian Catholic University. She is known for her research on Australian saints and clergymen, particularly Matthew Beovich.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Josephine Laffin” as australian historian. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Josephine, Laffin and Australian.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 32-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Josephine, Laffin and Australian providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q58008149. VIAF identifies the subject as 101082250. The Library of Congress control number is no2006064121. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Josephine Laffin” 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.