John Morgan (archbishop of Wales)
{{Short description|Welsh Anglican bishop (1886–1957)}}
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Bishop of Swansea and Brecon (1934–1939)
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John Morgan (6 June 1886 – 26 June 1957) was a Welsh Anglican bishop. He served as Bishop of Swansea and Brecon (1934 to 1939), as Bishop of Llandaff (1939 to 1957), and then also as Archbishop of Wales (1949 to 1957).
Early life and education
Morgan was born on 6 June 1886 in Llandudno, Wales.'MORGAN, Most Rev. John', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U240990 accessed 29 May 2017] He spent some of his early education at The Cathedral School, Llandaff. He studied at Hertford College, Oxford, and trained for Holy Orders at Cuddesdon College, an Anglo-Catholic theological college near Oxford, England.
File:Grave of Bishop John Morgan, in Llandaff Cathedral churchyard, May 2020.jpg
Ordained ministry
Before being ordained as bishop he had been Vicar of Llanbeblig and Caernarfon. Firmly attached to the policies of Charles Green as Archbishop of Wales,{{clarify|date=May 2017|reason=Archbishop Green's article does not indicate what these policies were}} he was a meticulous upholder of Anglo-Catholic principles.{{citation needed|date=May 2017|reason=Anglo-Catholicism not mentioned in any of the cited sources}} He witnessed the bombing of Llandaff Cathedral in January 1941 and presided over its earlier reconstruction, one of his last engagements being its rededication on 10 April 1957.
He was consecrated a bishop on 22 May 1934, by Alfred Edwards, Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of St Asaph, at St Asaph Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = New Welsh bishop consecrated | archive = 1934_05_25_629 | issue = 3722 | date = 25 May 1934 | page = 629 | accessed = 26 June 2018 }} He then served as Bishop of Swansea and Brecon and ex-officio Dean of Brecon (1934–1939) and subsequently as Bishop of Llandaff (1939–1957), in which post he was also enthroned on 21 September 1949 as Archbishop of Wales (1949–1957).{{Cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-MORG-JOH-1886|title=Welsh Biography Online - John Morgan|publisher=National Library of Wales|accessdate=2008-04-26}}{{cite news|title=Obituary: Dr. John Morgan, Archbishop Of Wales|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=1957-06-27|page=15|issue= 53878}}
Personal life
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Category:Anglo-Catholic bishops
Category:Bishops of Swansea and Brecon
Category:People educated at The Cathedral School, Llandaff
Category:20th-century Anglican archbishops
Category:Welsh Anglo-Catholics
Category:Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of Cuddesdon College
Category:20th-century bishops of the Church in Wales
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