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Matthew Bunson is Vice President and Editorial Director of EWTN News, the Catholic multimedia network and is an American author of more than fifty books, a historian, professor, editor, Roman Catholic theologian. He is also a Senior Fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and is on the faculty at Catholic International University.
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- Bunson, Matthew (2013). Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire . Facts on File Library of world history. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 978-1-4381-1027-1. OCLC 491150829 – via Internet Archive.
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