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See also:GOBAT, See also:SAMUEL (1799—1879) , See also:bishop of See also:Jerusalem, was See also:born at Cremine, See also:Bern, See also:Switzerland, on the 26th of See also:January 1799. After serving in the See also:mission See also:house at See also:Basel from 1823 to 1826, he went to See also:Paris and See also:London, whence, having acquired some knowledge of Arabic and Ethiopic, he went out to See also:Abyssinia under the auspices of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church Missionary Society. The unsettled See also:state of the See also:country and his own See also:ill See also:health prevented his making much headway; he returned to See also:Europe in 1835 and from 1839 to 1842 lived in See also:Malta, where he supervised an Arabic See also:translation of the See also:Bible. In 1846 he was consecrated See also:Protestant bishop of Jerusalem, under the agreement between the See also:British and Prussian governments (1841) for the See also:establishment of a See also:joint bishopric for See also:Lutherans and Anglicans in the See also:Holy See also:Land. He carried on a vigorous mission as bishop for over See also:thirty years, his diocesan school and orphanage on See also:Mount See also:Zion being specially noteworthy. He died on the 11th of May 1879.
A See also:record of his See also:life, largely autobiographical, was published at Basel in 1884, and an See also:English translation at London in the same See also:year.
End of Article: GOBAT, SAMUEL (1799—1879)
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