Background
Cooper was born on 4 August 1960 and grew up in Wigan in Lancashire.
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Carl Cooper
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Wycliffe Hall; University of Wales.
Career
He first spent time in Wales as an undergraduate at the University of Wales, Lampeter, where he took a degree in French before studying theology at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford. Unusually for a non-native Welsh bishop, Cooper is a fluent Welsh-speaker. He served as curate in Llanelli, then as the Rector of Ciliau Aeron, Ceredigion.
He also served at Dolgellau and as Archdeacon of Meirionnydd.
He was elected and consecrated Bishop of Street David"s in 2002. At that meeting Cooper was quoted as saying, "Wales" influence often stretches further than we realise."
David Bahati later tried to pass an act through the Ugandan Parliament to have the death penalty applied to certain homosexual acts.
Bishop George Katwesigye has accused "perpetrators" of homosexuality of "indirectly bringing back colonialism in Uganda". There then followed press speculation linking Cooper with his chaplain and communications officer, the Reverend Mandy Williams-Potter.
After consultation with the Archbishop of Wales, Cooper took a leave of absence on 12 March 2008.
And then resigned his position on 29 April 2008.
