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- ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 845
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 454
- ↑ A. van Lantschoot, "Bacatha" in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VI, 1932, coll. 35-36