David Thomas, Welsh Anglican prelate, Died at 74

  Religion

David Thomas was born in 1942 and died on May 12, 2017.

He was a Welsh Anglican bishop.

Thomas served as the Provincial Assistant Bishop of the Church in Wales, from 1996 to 2008.

During this role, he ministered to those who could not accept the ordination of women as priests.

David was an ordained ministry

During May 1967, he was ordained in the Church in Wales as a deacon by his father John Thomas, the then Bishop of Swansea and Brecon.

During 1968, David Thomas was ordained as a priest by David Bartlett, the then Bishop of St Asaph.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Thomas worked at St Stephen’s House, Oxford, a Church of England theological college in the Anglo-Catholic tradition.

David Thomas was Vice-Principal from 1975 to 1979, and Principal from 1982 to 1987.

David Thomas passed away at 74 years old.