:Jack Thomas (bishop)

{{Short description|British bishop (1908–1995)}}

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| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend

| name = Jack Thomas

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| title = Bishop of Swansea and Brecon

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| church = Church in Wales

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| diocese = Diocese of Swansea and Brecon

| term = 1958 to 1976

| predecessor = Glyn Simon

| successor = Benjamin Vaughan

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| birth_name = John James Absalom Thomas

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John James Absalom Thomas (17 May 1908 – 27 February 1995Who was Who 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}) was the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon from 1958Electoral College Reaches Decision Ven. J. J. A. Thomas New Bishop Of Swansea The Times Friday, Nov 29, 1957; pg. 7; Issue 54011; col F until 1976.{{Cite web |url=http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/swanbrec/bishop/ |title=Diocesan web site |access-date=29 December 2010 |archive-date=30 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110530061021/http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/swanbrec/bishop/ |url-status=dead }}

Thomas was educated at the University of Aberystwyth and Keble College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1932.Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947 He held curacies at Llancaiach and Sketty after which he was the Bishop's Messenger and Examining Chaplain for the Swansea diocese. He was then Warden of Church Hostel, Bangor, and a lecturer at the University College of North Wales until 1944. Following this he was Vicar of Swansea and then Archdeacon of Gower - before being enthroned as Bishop of Swansea and Brecon on 2 February 1958."Bishop of Swansea Enthroned Emphasis on Church Unity", The Times Monday, 3 February 1958, p. 10. He made his son, David, (who served as Provincial Assistant Bishop in the Church in Wales from 1996 to 2008) a deacon on 21 May 1967 at St Asaph Cathedral;{{Church Times | title = Trinity Ordinations | archive = 1967_05_26_013 | issue = 5441 | date = 26 May 1967 | page = 13 | accessed = 24 May 2019 }} Jack retired in 1976.