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Rudolf Deng Majak

Sudanese Roman Catholic bishop (1940–2017)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 1, 2022
Entity authorityQ1562888 ↗
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Rudolf Deng Majak (November 1, 1940 – March 6, 2017) was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Majak was born in Awac, Sudan, in 1940. In 1970 he was ordained in Rumbek to the priesthood. In 1992 he became the Apostolic Administrator of Wau, now in South Sudan. Deng Majak served as Bishop of that diocese from 1995 until his death.

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"Bishop Rudolf Deng Majak †". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 8 March 2017.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rudolf Deng Majak” as sudanese Roman Catholic bishop (1940–2017). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 2017, 1970, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940-11-01. The account is most persuasive where Rudolf, Deng and Majak can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Rudolf Deng Majak” 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.