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- ↑ Brill
- ↑ DACB
- 1 2 3 4 Episcopal Church Archives website, Retired Ugandan Primate Dies, article dated May 26, 1988
- 1 2 New Vision website, Anglican Archbishops Through the Decades, article dated August 28, 2019
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980–82 p894 London: OUP, 1983 ISBN 0-19-200010-1
- ↑ Bristol Anglican website, Bristol Uganda Link
- ↑ Church of Uganda website, 60 Years of Self-Governance (1961-2021); Looking Back and Looking Forward, article dated April 21, 2021
