Henry Wolfe Baines was an Anglican bishop

Bishop

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Baines was educated at Repton School

Repton School

Repton School, founded in 1557, is a co-educational English independent school for both day and boarding pupils, in the British public school tradition, located in the village of Repton, in Derbyshire, in the Midlands area of England...

 and Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, Oxford

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. After theological studies at Ripon College Cuddesdon

Ripon College Cuddesdon

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 he was ordained in 1930 and began his ordained ministry as a curate

Curate

A curate is a person who is invested with the care or cure of souls of a parish. In this sense "curate" correctly means a parish priest but in English-speaking countries a curate is an assistant to the parish priest...

 at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin

University Church of St Mary the Virgin

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. From 1934 he was chaplain

Chaplain

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 of St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong

St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong

St. John's Cathedral , officially The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist and located at 4 Garden Road, Central, is an Anglican cathedral in Hong Kong. It is the Diocesan cathedral of the...

, then Vicar

Vicar

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 of St Nicholas Radford, Coventry

Radford, Coventry

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 and finally, before his ordination to the episcopate, the Rural Dean

Rural Dean

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 of Rugby

Rugby, Warwickshire

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. In 1949 he became Bishop of Singapore

Bishop of Singapore

The Bishop of Singapore is the diocesan bishop for the Anglican Diocese of Singapore, founded in 1909.-List of bishops:*1881 Rt Revd George Frederick Hose, Bishop of Singapore, Labuan & Sarawak 1881*1909 Rt Revd Charles James Ferguson-Davie...

 and in 1960 he was translated

Translation (ecclesiastical)

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 to be the Bishop of Wellington

Diocese of Wellington

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