Joseph (Iosef) Bondarenko (born December 15, 1936) is a Ukrainian evangelical minister, author, theologian, public speaker and founder of Good Call Ministries,[1] based out of Orange County, California. Bondarenko currently resides in Santa Barbara, California. A notable Soviet dissident, in 1962 Bondarenko's diploma was withheld and he was expelled as a young man from Odesa Institute of Marine Fleet Engineers (currently Odesa National Maritime University) for illegally engaging in religious activities in the Soviet Union.[2] Undeterred by this expulsion, Bondarenko's ongoing activities eventually led to multiple prison terms in both Odesa and Kyiv.[3]
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- ^ "About Good Call Ministries - Good Call Ministries". Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
- ^ de Boer, ed., S.P.; et al. (1982). Biographical Dictionary of Soviet Dissidents 1956-1975. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 61. ISBN 90-247-2538-0.
{{cite book}}:|last1=has generic name (help) - ^ Bourdeaux, Michael (1968). Religious Ferment in Russia; Protestant Opposition to Soviet Religious Policy. London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. p. 213.