Brian James (1936 - 2013) was a

Church in Wales The Church in Wales () is an Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses. The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed archiepiscopal see, but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops. The position is currently held b ...

priest, most notably

Archdeacon of Brecon The Archdeacon of Brecon is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church in Wales Diocese of Swansea and Brecon. The archdeacon is the senior priest with responsibility over the area of the archdeaconry of Brecon, which comprises the five rural d ...

from 1994 until 1999.''Crockford's Clerical Directory'', 100th edition, (2007), Church House Publishing. . He was educated at

St. Michael's College, Llandaff St Padarn's Institute is a Seminary, theological training college owned by the Church in Wales, located in Llandaff in the north of the city of Cardiff, Wales. It operates as a residential training college for its full time ministers. The origins ...

and ordained in 1958. After curacies in

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and

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he was

Vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English p ...

of Brwyngwyn from 1963 to 1970. He was at

Llansantffraed Llansantffraed (Llansantffraed-juxta-Usk) is a parish in the community of Talybont-on-Usk in Powys, Wales, near Brecon. The benefice of Llansantffraed with Llanrhystud and Llanddeiniol falls within the Diocese of St Davids in the Church in Wal ...

from 1970 until 1979; and Ilston from 1979 until 1994.

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1930 births 2013 deaths Archdeacons of Brecon Alumni of St Michael's College, Llandaff 20th-century Welsh Anglican priests 21st-century Welsh Anglican priests {{ChurchinWales-clergy-stub