Elwyn Roberts
priest
Elwyn Roberts (1931 – February 2009) was a Welsh Anglican priest.
Roberts was educated at Bangor University; Keble College, Oxford; and St Michael's College, Llandaff. He was ordained deacon in 1955 and priest in 1956. After a curacy in Bangor he was Librarian of St Michael's College, Llandaff. He was Vicar of St David, Bangor, from 1966 to 1971; and Rector of St George, Llandudno, from 1971 to 1983. He was Archdeacon of Merioneth from 1983 to 1986; and Archdeacon of Bangor from 1986 to 1999.
He died at the age of 77, having suffered from Parkinson's disease since 1984.
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