Rickson Maomaoru

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Rickson George Maomaoru is an Anglican bishop: since his episcopal consecration on 22 October 2017, [1] [2] he has been Assistant Bishop of Malaita, one of the nine dioceses that make up the Anglican Church of Melanesia. [3]

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