Edward Williamson

Last updated

A memorial plaque to Williamson in Brecon Cathedral Memorial plaque to Edward William Williamson, Brecon Cathedral, January 2019.jpg
A memorial plaque to Williamson in Brecon Cathedral

Edward William Williamson was the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon in the Church in Wales from 1939 until his death on 23 September 1953. [1] [2]

Williamson was born on 22 April 1892. [3] He was educated at The Cathedral School, Llandaff, Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, and was ordained in 1915. [4]

He began his ordained ministry with curacies at St Martin's Leeds and All Saints' South Lambeth, after which he was a lecturer at St Augustine's College, Canterbury. From 1926 to 1939 he was Warden of St Michael's Theological College, Llandaff, when he was appointed to the episcopate. [5] On 26 July 1949, as Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, he dedicated the new St Martin's (Dunvant), which was possibly the first church to be dedicated in Wales after the Second World War.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Church in Wales</span> Anglican church in Wales

The Church in Wales is an Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.

The post of Archbishop of Wales was created in 1920 when the Church in Wales was separated from the Church of England and disestablished. The four historic Welsh dioceses had previously formed part of the Province of Canterbury, and so came under its Archbishop. The new Church became the Welsh province of the Anglican Communion.

William Glyn Hughes Simon was a Welsh prelate who served as the Anglican Archbishop of Wales from 1968 to 1971.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eryl Thomas</span> Welsh bishop (1910–2001)

Eryl Stephen Thomas was a Welsh Anglican clergyman who served as Bishop of Monmouth and Bishop of Llandaff.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Green (bishop)</span>

Charles Alfred Howell Green was an Anglican bishop of the Church in Wales. He was the first Bishop of Monmouth (1921–1928) and subsequently Bishop of Bangor during which time he served as Archbishop of Wales.

June Osborne is a British retired Anglican bishop. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the Bishop of Llandaff in the Church in Wales. Between 2004 and 2017, she served as the Dean of Salisbury, and was the first woman to head one of England's medieval cathedrals.

John Gwynno James was a Church in Wales cleric, who served as Archdeacon of Llandaff and subsequently as Dean of Brecon.

John Morgan was a Welsh Anglican bishop. He served as Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, as Bishop of Llandaff, and then also as Archbishop of Wales.

Harold John Charles was an Anglican priest.

Edward Latham Bevan was a Welsh churchman, the inaugural Bishop of Swansea and Brecon from 1923 until his death, having previously been the final suffragan Bishop of Swansea.

Derrick Greenslade Childs was the Anglican Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales.

John James Absalom "Jack" Thomas was the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon from 1958 until 1976.

Anthony Edward Pierce was the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon in the Church in Wales from 1999 to 2008.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Davies (archbishop of Wales)</span> Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, born 1953

John David Edward Davies KStJ is a Welsh Anglican bishop and former solicitor. From 2008 he was the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon in the Church in Wales. On 6 September 2017, he was also elected Archbishop of Wales; he continued in his role as diocesan bishop. He retired from both offices with effect from 2 May 2021.

Carlyle Witton-Davies was an Anglican priest and scholar.

Daniel Ivor Evans CBE was an Anglican bishop in South America in the mid 20th century.

The Archdeacon of Brecon is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church in Wales Diocese of Swansea and Brecon. The archdeacon is the senior priest with responsibility over the area of the archdeaconry of Brecon, which comprises the five rural deaneries of Brecon, Builth, Crickhowell, Hay and Maelienydd.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Jones (bishop)</span> Welsh Anglican priest

Richard William Jones was an eminent Welsh Anglican priest.

Joanna Susan Penberthy is a Welsh Anglican bishop. Since November 2016, she has served as the Bishop of St Davids in the Church in Wales. She was the first woman to become a bishop in the Church in Wales, when she was consecrated a bishop on 21 January 2017.

Henry James Church Jones was a Church in Wales priest, most notably Archdeacon of Brecon from 1923 until 1939.

References

  1. New Bishop of Asaph, The Times, 21 June 1950; pg. 4; Issue 51723; col F
  2. Obituary Bishop Of Swansea And Brecon Scholar And Antiquary, The Times, 24 September 1953; pg. 8; Issue 52735; col E
  3. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN   0-7136-3457-X
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
  5. Diocesan website
Church in Wales titles
Preceded by Bishop of Swansea and Brecon
19391953
Succeeded by