Alan Morgan (bishop)
{{Short description|British bishop (1940–2011)}}
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Alan Morgan
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| title = Bishop of Sherwood
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| church = Church of England
| diocese = Diocese of Southwell
| term = 1989–2004
| predecessor = Dick Darby
| successor = Tony Porter
| other_post = Archdeacon of Coventry (1983–1989)
| ordination = 1964 (deacon); 1965 (priest)
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| consecration = 21 September 1989
| consecrated_by = John Habgood
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| nationality = British
| religion = Anglican
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| parents = A. W. Morgan
| spouse = Margaret née Williams
| children = 1 son, 1 daughter
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Alan Wyndham Morgan, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|size=100%}} (22 June 1940{{Who's Who | title=Morgan, Alan Wyndham | id = U34704 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 24 December 2016 }}{{snd}}24 October 2011){{cite web|url=http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=alan-wyndham-morgan&pid=154288873|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707065521/http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=alan-wyndham-morgan&pid=154288873|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 July 2012|title=Alan Wyndham MORGAN|website=The Times|access-date=9 November 2018}} was the Bishop of Sherwood, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Southwell, from 1989 until 2004.
Early life and education
He was educated at Gowerton Boys' Grammar School and St David's College, Lampeter.
Ordained ministry
Morgan was ordained a deacon on 25 July 1964 (by John Thomas (Bishop of Swansea and Brecon) in Brecon Cathedral){{Church Times | title = Ordinations | archive = 1964_07_31_011 | issue = 5294 | date = 31 July 1964 | page = 11 | accessed = 24 December 2016 }} and a priest in 1965, beginning his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Llangyfelach and Morriston, Cockett and Coventry.“Crockford's clerical directory, 1995” (Lambeth, Church House {{ISBN|0-7151-8088-6}}) Following these he was appointed Team Vicar to St Barnabas, Coventry in 1972 and then in 1978 Bishop's Officer for Social Responsibility to John Gibbs, Bishop of Coventry. Appointed Archdeacon of Coventry in 1983"Debrett's People of Today 1992” (London, Debrett's) {{ISBN|1-870520-09-2}} he was appointed to the episcopate six years later. Following his consecration as a bishop on 21 September 1989 by John Habgood, Archbishop of York, at York Minster,{{Church Times | title = picture caption | archive = 1989_10_06_004 | issue = 6608 | date = 6 October 1989 | page = 4 | accessed = 24 December 2016 }} he served as the diocese as Bishop suffragan of Sherwood for fifteen years.
At a national level he was chairman of the General Synod’s Board of Social Responsibility’s Working Party on the Future of the Family, which produced a report called 'Something to Celebrate' in 1995. He was also part of the Coalfields Task Force and went on to continue the work as Chair of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust.Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham press release {{cite web |url=http://www.dioceseofsouthwell.couk.com/pr_TributeBishopAlan.html |title=Press Releases - TributeBishopAlan |accessdate=2011-11-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425134336/http://www.dioceseofsouthwell.couk.com/pr_TributeBishopAlan.html |archivedate=2012-04-25 }}
He retired in 2004.{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/|title=The Times & The Sunday Times|website=The Times|access-date=9 November 2018}}
Honours
Morgan was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2005.{{Cite web |url=http://xuk.biz/UKLR/Landslide/pdf/nhonour20041231ta.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517004310/http://www.xuk.biz/UKLR/Landslide/pdf/nhonour20041231ta.pdf |archive-date=2008-05-17 |url-status=dead }} In the year of his retirement, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, awarded him the Cross of St Augustine in recognition of his service to the Anglican Communion.{{cite web|url=http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2842/archbishop-to-award-cross-of-st-augustine|title=Archbishop to award Cross of St Augustine|website=Rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org|accessdate=9 November 2018|archive-date=13 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813054845/http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2842/archbishop-to-award-cross-of-st-augustine|url-status=dead}}
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Category:Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter
Category:Archdeacons of Coventry
Category:20th-century Church of England bishops
Category:21st-century Church of England bishops
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire