# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-kobia
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:31:47.016Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-kobia"
name: "Samuel Kobia"
slug: "samuel-kobia"
description: "Samuel Kobia, is a Methodist clergyman and the first African to be elected General Secretary (2004–2009) of the World Council of Churches (WCC), a worldwide fellowship of 349 global, regional and local churches representing a Christian population of over 590 million people. In 2010, Kobia was appointed Ecumenical Special Envoy to Sudan by the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC). Kobia is married to Ruth, and they have two daughters, Kaburo and Nkatha, and two sons, Mwenda and Mutua."
tagline: "Kenyan minister"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1947-03-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.48
  momentum:             1.3
  historical:           5.470734666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Samuel Kobia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Kobia"
    title: "Samuel Kobia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Kobia"
    title: "Samuel Kobia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Kobia"
    title: "Samuel Kobia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Kobia"
    title: "Samuel Kobia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Kobia"
    title: "Samuel Kobia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484808"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump