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- ↑ "Provincial Directory: Port Elizabeth". The Anglican Communion Official Website. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ↑ Bishop Bethlehem Nopece Brief Biography Archived 14 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Bishop Nopece announces retirement – Anglican Church of Southern Africa". anglicanchurchsa.org. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ↑ Statement by Bishop Bethlehem Nopece Following Consecration of Gay Bishop, 9 November 2003, Christian News Archived 24 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ GAFCON Movement Spreads through Regional Fellowships of Confessing Anglicans, Courage, Church of Uganda, 7 September 2009
- ↑ Anglican Defenders of True Gospel Inspired After London Meeting, 10 May 2012, Gateway News Archived 12 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Iindaba - Gazette of the Diocese of Port Elizabeth, SA". anglicandiocesepe.org.za. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ↑ "GAFCON III largest Pan-Anglican gathering since the Toronto Congress 1963, Anglican Ink, June 2018". Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
- ↑ GAFCON 3 in Jerusalem, Iindaba, August 2018
