Thomas Edward Jenkins (known as Edward;Cathedral web-site
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priest. Jenkins was educated at

St David's College, Lampeter University of Wales, Lampeter () was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited degree awarding powers since 1852. It was a ...

. He was

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in 1925 and began his ecclesiastical career with a

curacy A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' () 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 who are ass ...

Llanelli ; ) is a market town and community (Wales), community in Carmarthenshire and the Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county of Dyfed, Wales. It is on the estuary of the River Loughor and is the largest town in the Principal areas of Wales, ...

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1940-41 Oxford,

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,1941 From 1934 to 1938 he was Rector of

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. From then until 1946 he was

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of Christ Church,

after which he was

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Lampeter Lampeter (; (formal); ''Llambed'' (colloquial)) is a town, community and electoral ward in Ceredigion, Wales, at the confluence of the Afon Dulas with the River Teifi. It is the third largest urban area in Ceredigion, after Aberystwyth and C ...

. He was

of Cardigan from 1955 to 1957 when he became

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, a post he held for 15 years.

References

1902 births Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter Welsh Anglicans Deans of St Davids 1996 deaths {{ChurchinWales-clergy-stub