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- ↑ Jeff Jones (April 27, 2004). "Jeff Iorg elected as president of Golden Gate Seminary". Baptist Press. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
- ↑ Slayden A. Yarbrough, Michael Kuykendall, Southern Baptists: A History of a Confessional People, McFarland, US, 2021, p. 123
- ↑ Christianity Daily, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary Changes Name to Gateway Seminary After Relocating to Southern California, christianitydaily.com, US, August 19, 2016
- ↑ Jim Wood, The First Baptist Theological School in the Western US, marinmagazine.com, US, July 26, 2019
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