Background
He was born on and educated at Gowerton Boys’ Grammar School and Street David"s College, Lampeter.
He was born on and educated at Gowerton Boys’ Grammar School and Street David"s College, Lampeter.
University of Wales.
He was ordained in 1966 and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Llangyfelach, Cockett and Coventry. Following these he was appointed Vicar to Street Barnabas, Coventry in 1972 and then in 1978 Bishop"s Officer for Social Responsibility within the Diocese of Coventry. Appointed Archdeacon of the city in 1983 he ascended to the Episcopate six years later.
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. He retired in 2004 and was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire the following year.