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Owain Jones (priest)

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Owain William Jones (9 September 1921 – February 1995)[1] was a Welsh Anglican priest.[2]

Jones was born in Merthyr Tydfil[3] in 1921 and educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1938, and priest in 1939.[4] After a curacy in Roath he was chaplain at St Michael's College, Llandaff. Jones was Warden of Church Hostel, Bangor and a lecturer at the University of Wales from 1957 to 1962. He held incumbencies at Builth and Newbridge-on-Wye. He was Archdeacon of Brecon from 1979 until 1987; and archdeacon of Gower from 1987 to 1989.

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  1. ^ "England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007". Ancestry. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Brycheiniog – Vol. 22 1986–1987 The Archdeaconry of Brecon". Welsh Journals Online. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Birth registration". FreeBMD. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  4. ^ Crockfords 1987/8 p 309 (London, Church House, 1987) ISBN 0-7151-8066-5