# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-marie-benoit-balla
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:03:49.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-marie-benoit-balla"
name: "Jean-Marie Benoît Balla"
slug: "jean-marie-benoit-balla"
description: "Jean-Marie Benoît Balla was a Cameroonian Catholic bishop who served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafia from May 2003 until his death in May 2017. He was appointed bishop on 3 May 2003\tby Pope John Paul II. He died in office on 31 May 2017 under mysterious circumstances."
tagline: "Cameroonian Catholic bishop (1959-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mgr_Jean_Marie_Benoit_bala.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1959-05-10"
deathDate: "2017-05-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جان ماري بينوا بالا"
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    title: "Jean-Marie Benoît Balla"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump