Richard James Wood (25 August 1920 – 9 October 2008) was a British

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bishop and anti-apartheid campaigner. He was ordained in the

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and served his

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in the

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. He then moved to

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and served in a number of parish posts before becoming the

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of Damaraland in 1973. He was expelled from South Africa in 1975 for speaking out against the apartheid government. He returned to England permanently in 1977, and became Vicar of St Mary's Church, Hull and chaplain to the

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; during this time, he was also an

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in the

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. His final post before retirement, from 1979 to 1983, was as a member of staff of St Mark's Theological College,

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.'WOOD, Rt Rev. Richard James', ''

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'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Richard 1920 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops Anglican bishops of Damaraland