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Chris Chataway

Australian priest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ55196678 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chris Chataway (born 1960 or 1961) is an Australian Anglican priest and musician who has served as Dean of Perth since 1 February 2020. He previously served as Archdeacon and Dean of Ballarat from 2014 to 2020.

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“Chris Chataway” enters the record as australian priest. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chris, Chataway and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1961, 2020, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chris, Chataway and Australian.
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“Chris Chataway” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Chris, Chataway and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55196678. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960, 1961, 2020 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chris Chataway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.