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- ↑ "WEST AFRICA – CAPA-HQ" . Retrieved 2021-11-07.
- ↑ Liberia Bishop Jonathan Hart heads West Africa's Internal Province, Anglican Communion News Service, 9 July 2014
- ↑ Archbishop Hart Named Head of CPWA, Daily Observer, 5 March 2019
- ↑ New primate for West Africa, Anglican Ink, 1 March 2019
- ↑ The Seventh Trumpet: Communiqué of the 7th Global South Conference, Cairo 2019, Global South Anglican Official Website, 12 October 2019
