Tony Comber

Anglican Archdeacon (1927–2022)

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Anthony James Comber [1] (20 April 1927 – 6 July 2022) was Archdeacon of Leeds[2] from 1982 to 1992.[3]

Comber was vicar of Oulton from 1960 to 1969; and then of Hunslet from 1969 to 1977. He was Rector of Farnley from 1977 to 1982.[4]

Comber died on 6 July 2022, at the age of 95.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Diocese of Ripon & Leeds web-site Archived 15 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Burches
  3. ^ ‘COMBER, Ven. Anthony James’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, November 2014 accessed 3 November 2015
  4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980-82: Oxford, OUP, 1983 ISBN 0-19-200010-1
  5. ^ "Church Times: "Deaths", 29 July 2022". Retrieved 29 July 2022.
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