Edward William Williamson was the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon

Bishop of Swansea and Brecon

The Bishop of Swansea and Brecon is the Ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Swansea and Brecon.The diocese covers the City and County of Swansea and the ancient counties of Brecknockshire and Radnorshire...

 in the Church in Wales from 1939 until his death on 23 September 1953.

Williamson was born on 22 April 1892. He was educated at The Cathedral School, Llandaff

The Cathedral School, Llandaff

The Cathedral School, Llandaff is a coeducational Welsh independent senior, prep and pre-prep day school. It is located in Llandaff, Cardiff. The school is part of the Woodard Schools foundation, as well as having many links to the neighbouring Llandaff Cathedral.In 1880 Dean John Vaughan opened a...

, Westminster School

Westminster School

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 and Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

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, and was ordained in 1915.

He began his ordained ministry with curacies

Curate

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 at St Martin’s Leeds and All Saints' South Lambeth, after which he was a lecturer

Lecturer

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 at St Augustine's College, Canterbury

St Augustine's College, Canterbury

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. From 1936 to 1939 he was Warden

Warden (college)

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 of St Michael’s Theological College, Llandaff

Llandaff

Llandaff is a district in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales, having been incorporated into the city in 1922. It is the seat of the Church in Wales Bishop of Llandaff, whose diocese covers the most populous area of South Wales. Much of the district is covered by parkland known as Llandaff...

, when he was appointed to the episcopate. On 26 July 1949, as Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, he dedicated the new St Martin's (Dunvant), which was possibly the first church to be dedicated in Wales after the Second World War

World War II

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