Eryl Stephen Thomas

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Eryl Stephen Thomas (1910-2001) was a Bishop of Monmouth and a Bishop of Llandaff.

An Anglesey man, after education at St John's College, Oxford, Eryl Thomas served curacies and a vicarage in East Wales and as Warden of a theological college before appointment as Dean of Llandaff in 1954. In this post he completed the restoration of the war-damaged cathedral begun under his predecessor Glyn Simon. A prominent representative of the Anglo-Catholic school he was renowned for his pastoral and preaching gifts. In 1968, he became Bishop of Monmouth and, in 1971, was translated to Llandaff. In 1975, in the context of a court case where he had to pay a small fine, Thomas felt obliged to resign but went on to serve successfully for many years as Assistant Bishop in the diocese of Swansea and Brecon.