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- ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 996
- ↑ Siméon Vailhé, "Tricomia" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1912)
- ↑ Oriens Christianus, III, 677.
- ↑ Patrologia Graeca , XCVII, 236.