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The Cathedrals Group (officially the Council of Church Universities and Colleges or CCUC) is an association of universities and university colleges in the United Kingdom. All the member institutions, except St David's College, Lampeter of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, were founded as teacher training colleges by either the Church of England, Roman Catholic Church or Methodist Church.

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Thomas Burgess (bishop of Salisbury) English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint Davids and Bishop of Salisbury

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