Jonathan Bau-Bau Bonaparte Hart (born Crozierville,

Montserrado County Montserrado County is a county in the northwestern portion of the West African nation of Liberia containing its national capital, Monrovia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has 17 sub p ...

, 9 January 1953) is a Liberian Episcopalian bishop. He has been Archbishop and Primate of the

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since 3 March 2019.

Biography

Hart graduated at the Cuttington University in

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. He later studied also at the

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, in

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, where he took a Master of Divinity degree. He has been bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Liberia since 2 March 2008. He was elected by the Electoral College of the Internal Province of West Africa of the

on 1 March 2014, to be the new archbishop, replacing Solomon Tilewa Johnson of

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, who had died suddenly shortly before. He was enthroned at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, in

Monrovia Monrovia () is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia. Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2008 census had 1,010,970 residents, home to 29% of Liberia’s total population. As the ...

, at 6 July 2014. He was enthroned as the Primate and Archbishop of the

at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, in

, on 3 March 2019. He attended the 7th

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Conference, held in

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, on 11–12 October 2019.The Seventh Trumpet: Communiqué of the 7th Global South Conference, Cairo 2019, Global South Anglican Official Website, 12 October 2019
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References

External links

Archbishop Hart Named Head of CPWA, Daily Observer, 5 March 2019
1953 births Living people Liberian Episcopalians 21st-century Anglican bishops in Africa 21st-century Anglican archbishops People from Montserrado County Cuttington University alumni Anglican archbishops of West Africa Anglican bishops of Liberia {{anglican-bishop-stub