Geraint Morgan Hugh Hughes (born 21 November 1934) is a retired

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. He was born into an ecclesiastical family, the son of The Ven.

Hubert Hughes (priest) Hubert William Benjamin Hughes was a Welsh Anglican priest in the 20th century. Hughes was educated at St David's College, Lampeter and ordained in 1939. After curacies in Hornsey and Defynnog he was a chaplain to the Forces from 1942 to 1947. W ...

, sometime

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of Gower. and educated at Brecon Grammar School,

Keble College, Oxford Keble College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, to th ...

, and

St. Michael's College, Llandaff St Padarn's Institute came into being in 2016. Until then the site belonged to St Michael's College, an Anglican theological college in Llandaff, Wales. St Michael's college was founded in Aberdare in 1892, and was situated in Llandaff from 190 ...

. After

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in the RAF he was

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in 1959.'' Crockford's Clerical Directory: A Reference Book of the Clergy of the Provinces of Canterbury and York and of Other Anglican Provinces and Dioceses''. London, Church House 1975 ISBN (invalid) 0108153674; Oxford University Press, 1976: , , He served

curacies A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

at Gorseinon and

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; and then held incumbencies at Llanbadarn Fawr and Llandrindod. He was a Canon at

Brecon Cathedral Brecon Cathedral ( cy, Eglwys Gadeiriol Aberhonddu), in the town of Brecon, Powys, is the cathedral of the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon in the Church in Wales and seat of the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon. Previously the church of Brecon Priory ...

from 1989 to 1998 when he became its Dean, a post he held for two years.

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1934 births People educated at Brecon Grammar School Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Alumni of St Michael's College, Llandaff Deans of Brecon Cathedral Living people {{ChurchinWales-clergy-stub