Anthony Crockett

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Phillip Anthony Crockett (23 August 1945 – 30 June 2008) was a Welsh Anglican Bishop of Bangor[1] from 2004 until his death from prostate cancer in 2008.

Crockett was educated at Pontypridd Grammar School [2] and King's College London before beginning his ordained ministry. He was ordained in 1971 and was a curate at Aberdare and Whitchurch (Cardiff). From 1978 to 1986 he was Vicar of Llanafan y Trawsgoed then Rector of Dowlai before eight years as the Secretary of the Board of Ministry of the Church in Wales. A fluent Welsh speaker,[3] his final post before his ordination to the episcopate was as Archdeacon of Carmarthen (1999-2004).[4]

Crockett was the first divorced person in the United Kingdom to be appointed as a bishop in a mainstream church, amidst some controversy.[5][6] In 1985 he separated from his first wife, with whom he had three children, and remarried Caroline Ann Owen (born 1959) in 1999.[6] He ordained his second wife in 2006.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Who's Who 2008: London: A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  2. ↑ Debrett's People of Today. London: Debrett's, 2008, ISBN 978-1-870520-95-9
  3. ↑ BBC Wales obituary
  4. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0)
  5. ↑ - 'The Right Rev Anthony Crockett: Forthright Bishop of Bangor' - The Independent 11 July 2008
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "First divorced bishop appointed". BBC News. Retrieved 2012-08-30. 
  7. ↑ 'The Right Reverend Anthony Crockett' - The Daily Telegraph 1 July 2008
Church in Wales titles
Preceded by
Saunders Davies		 Bishop of Bangor
2004–2008 		Succeeded by
Andrew John
Since 1908
Archdeacons of Carmarthen


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