Kenneth William Sharpe (b 1940) was a senior

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, most notably Archdeacon of Newport from 1997 to 2008. Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/9: p734 London,

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, 2008 Sharpe was educated at

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and Sarum Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1963 and priest in 1964. After a curacy in Hubberston he was

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of Cwmbran from 1971 to 1974. and of Dingestow from 1974 to 1982. He was also the Youth Chaplain for the Diocese of Monmouth from 1974 to 1982. Sharpe was

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of St Mark,

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from 1982 to 1997.

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