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- 1 2 3 "Former Navy aircraft engineer appointed Bishop". Church in Wales. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ↑ "Petertide ordinations" . Church Times . No. 6858. 22 July 1994. p. 5. ISSN 0009-658X . Retrieved 5 August 2023– via UK Press Online archives.
- ↑ "New bishops consecrated". Church in Wales. 28 February 2022. Archived from the original on 28 February 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ↑ https://cadeirlanbangor.contentfiles.net/media/assets/file/Cysegru_26_Chwe_2022.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
- ↑ "John Derrick Percy Lomas" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing . Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ↑ "Daly, Henry Varian" . Who's Who & Who Was Who . Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 15 December 2017.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ "Archived copy". cinw.s3.amazonaws.com. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "New Archdeacon of Wrexham to be installed next Sunday". October 2018.
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