Barry Morgan
Barry Cennydd Morgan (born January 31, 1947 in Neath ) was Archbishop of Wales from 2003 to 2017 and thus head of the Church in Wales .
Morgan studied at University College London and Selwyn College , Cambridge. After his ordination in 1973 he became a pastor and later a lecturer in theology. Before becoming Bishop of Llandaff in 1999 , he had been Bishop of Bangor since 1993 . He has been Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales since 2006 .
In September 2006, he opposed plans by the British government to renew the Trident nuclear missile system . In December 2007, Morgan reprimanded “fundamentalist atheism” as a phenomenon of dechristianization in public life, that Christmas is called the “Winter Val”, that hospitals remove Christian symbols from their chapels and that schools do not allow children to send Christmas cards . For reasons of age, he resigned his offices as Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of Llandaff on January 31, 2017.
Web links
- Morgan's biography from the official website ( Memento from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ BBC NEWS | Wales | Archbishop hits out over Trident
- ↑ BBC NEWS | Wales | 'Atheistic fundamentalism' fears
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Rowan Williams |
Archbishop of Wales 2003-2017 |
John Davies |
| Roy Thomas Davies |
Bishop of Llandaff 1999–2017 |
June Osborne |
| John Cledan Mears |
Bishop of Bangor 1993–1999 |
Francis James Saunders Davies |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morgan, Barry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morgan, Barry Cennydd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British clergyman, Archbishop of Wales |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neath |