Alfred Edwin Morris was the Bishop of Monmouth

Bishop of Monmouth

The Bishop of Monmouth is the diocesan bishop of the Church in Wales Diocese of Monmouth.The see covers the historic county of Monmouthshire with the bishop's seat located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Woolos in Newport, which had been elevated to that status in 1921.The Bishop's residence is...

  and Archbishop of Wales

Archbishop of Wales

The post of Archbishop of Wales was created in 1920 when the Church in Wales was separated from the Church of England , and disestablished...

 in the middle of the 20th century.
After World War I

World War I

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 service with the RAMC he went up to St John’s College, Oxford. Ordained in 1924 he became Professor

Professor

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 of Hebrew and Theology

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 at St David's College, Lampeter

Lampeter

Lampeter is a town in Ceredigion, South West Wales, lying at the confluence of the River Teifi and the Afon Dulas.-Demographics:At the 2001 National Census, the population was 2894. Lampeter is therefore the smallest university town in both Wales and the United Kingdom...

, holding the post until his elevation to the Episcopate. A noted author and Sub-Prelate

Prelate

A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

 of the Order of St John of Jerusalem

Venerable Order of Saint John

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, he retired in 1967 and died four years later. His papers are held at the Roderic Bowen Library.