Gerwyn Huw Capon (born 9 April 1965) is a Welsh Anglican priest serving as Archdeacon of Montgomery in the

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 ...

Diocese of St Asaph. He was Dean of Llandaff from 2014 until 2022. Capon was educated at

Liverpool Polytechnic Liverpool John Moores University (abbreviated LJMU) is a public university, public research university in the city of Liverpool, England. The university can trace its origins to the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts, established in 1823. This ...

and

St Stephen's House, Oxford St Stephen's House is an external theological college with observer status at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Church of England. From 2003 to 2023 it was a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford. The college typicall ...

; and

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in 2004. After 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 ...

at St Mary's Church, West Derby, Liverpool, he was

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to the

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from 2007 to 2009. He was

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of Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Sands from 2009 to 2012 and again

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from 2012 until his appointment as Dean.‘CAPON, Very Rev. Gerwyn Huw’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, Nov 201
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/ref> He was installed as Dean on 28 February 2014. He announced his resignation on 17 May 2022, following his withdrawal of the allegation of bullying which he had made against the Bishop of Llandaff,

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. On 31 January 2023 he was installed as the Rector for the Benefice of

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, the Sampfords, Radwinter and Hempstead. in rural

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. He was collated Archdeacon of Montgomery on 1 September 2024.

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1965 births Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University Alumni of St Stephen's House, Oxford Deans of Llandaff Archdeacons of Montgomery Living people {{ChurchinWales-clergy-stub