:Eric Roberts (bishop)

{{Short description|British Anglican bishop (1914–1997)}}

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{{Portal|Christianity}}Eric Matthias Roberts (18 February 1914“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} – 29 March 1997) was a Bishop of St David's during the last quarter of the 20th century.[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/Visitation1710.html Genuki] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002060048/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/Visitation1710.html |date=2012-10-02 }}

Educated at Friars School, Bangor and St Edmund Hall, Oxford he was ordained in 1939.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 After a curacy at Penmaenmawr, he was Sub-Warden of St. Michael's College, Llandaff and then Vicar of Port Talbot.{{Cite web |url=http://www.st-theodore.org/parish-profile/ |title=List of incumbents |access-date=2011-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728053648/http://www.st-theodore.org/parish-profile/ |archive-date=2011-07-28 |url-status=dead }} After this he was the incumbent at Roath and then Archdeacon of Margam until his appointment to the episcopate in 1971.The Times, Monday, Apr 26, 1971; pg. 15; Issue 58156; col C Church news He retired in 1981.