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Derek Damant

South African bishop

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2022
Entity authorityQ5261909 ↗
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Derek George Damant was the sixth bishop of George.

He was educated at University of South Africa and ordained in 1958. He began his career as chaplain at St. Andrew's School, Bloemfontein after which he was founding head master at St. Stephen's Diocesan High School in Mohale's Hoek. He then moved to Pretoria where he became Chaplain of St Alban's College. From 1975 he was dean of Pretoria. He ascended to the episcopate in 1985 and retired in 1999.

Damant died in July 2021.

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The public source identifies “Derek Damant” as south African bishop. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Derek, Damant and South.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1975, 1985, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Derek, Damant and South providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Derek Damant” 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.