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- ↑ Insight: The Wycliffe College Newspaper July 2009, No.67, p.3
- ↑ Peter Leftie (24 April 2009). "Wabukala picked to head ACK". Daily Nation. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
- ↑ Archbishop Eliud Wabukala elected as the new Archbishop of Kenya, Anglican Communion News Service, 28 April 2009
- ↑ Kenya Gazette Notice no. 8738 of 14 August 2009
- ↑ KENYA: Anglican Primate Recognizes ACNA in Resurrection Message, 31 March 2013, Virtue Online
- ↑ "Primate approaches retirement with call to trust". anglicannews.org. 9 May 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
