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Henry Baines


Henry Wolfe Baines (2 February 1905 – 29 November 1972) was an Anglican bishop.

Baines was educated at Repton School and Balliol College, Oxford. After theological studies at Ripon College Cuddesdon he was ordained in 1930 and began his ordained ministry as a curate at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. From 1934 he was chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong, then Vicar of St Nicholas Radford, Coventry and finally, before his ordination to the episcopate, the Rural Dean of Rugby. In 1949 he became Bishop of Singapore and in 1960 he was translated to be the Bishop of Wellington.

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