Huw Jones (bishop)

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Assistant Bishop of St Asaph (1991–1996)
Dean of Brecon Cathedral (1981–1996)
Orders
Ordination1959
Consecration1991
Personal details
Born
David Huw Jones

1 July 1934
Died18 October 2016(2016-10-18) (aged 82)
NationalityWelsh
DenominationAnglicanism
SpouseGwyneth Jones
Children2

David Huw Jones (1 July 1934 – 18 October 2016) was a Welsh

Bishop of St. David's from 1996 to 2001.[1]

Early life and education

Jones was born on 1 July 1934.

Ordained ministry

Jones was

University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire from 1974 to 1978; becoming Assistant Dean of Faculty from 1977 to 1978. He became a Diocesan Ecumenical Officer in 1979. He was appointed Dean of Brecon Cathedral and Vicar of Brecon
, St Mary and Battle with Llanddew, in 1982, where he served until 1993.

Episcopal ministry

He was consecrated an

Assistant Bishop of St Asaph in 1993. He was elected Bishop of St Davids in December 1995[5] and enthroned at St Davids Cathedral on 24 February 1996.[6] He retired at the end of 2001.[7]

He died on 18 October 2016.[7]

References

  1. ^ Gwir Barchedig D Huw Jones (Caerdydd) Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine, Nottingham Welsh Society
  2. ^ St. David's. Bishop of, since 1996: Rt Rev. David Huw Jones. A & C Black, London. 2001. p. 1822. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. ^
    Who Was Who
    . Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d "✠ The Rt Revd David Huw Jones". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  5. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 9 August 2023 – via UK Press Online archives.
  6. . Retrieved 9 August 2023 – via UK Press Online archives.
  7. ^ a b Twm Owen (in "Local People") (20 October 2016). "Tributes paid to former Dean of Brecon". Tindle Newspapers Ltd. (Brecon & Radnor Express), Brecon. Archived from the original on 15 January 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.