Rowan Williams
WILLIAMS, Rowan Douglas. b. Swansea, 14 June 1950. Born into a Welsh-speaking family, he was educated at Dynevor School, Swansea, Christ’s College, Cambridge, and Wadham College, Oxford. After training for ordination and teaching at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, he was ordained in the Church of England (deacon, 1977; priest, 1978) while serving as tutor and Director of Studies at Westcott House, Cambridge. After further appointments at Cambridge as Lecturer in Divinity (1983) and Dean and Chaplain at Clare College (1984), he returned to Oxford as Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church in 1986. Williams was consecrated as Bishop of Monmouth in the Church...
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