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The Right Reverend Edwin Regan

Bishop of Wrexham

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BORN

31 December 1935 at Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, South Wales

PRE-SEMINARY STUDIES

Primary - St Joseph’s Port Talbot
Grammar - Glanafon County School

SEMINARY TRAINING

St John’s Waterford, Ireland

POST SEMINARY TRAINING

Corpus Christi College, London 1966 to 1967
Obtained Diploma in Catechetics

ORDINATION

St John’s Waterford - 5 July 1959

DIOCESE OF ORIGIN

Cardiff

DIOCESE OF INCARDINATION

Wrexham

MINISTRIES HELD

Assistant Priest
St Alban’s, Pontypool, July to November 1959
St Joseph’s, Neath, November 1959 to 1966

Chaplain to Porthcawl Convent
1967 to 1971

Director of Catechetics
1971 to 1988

Administrator of Cathedral
1971 to 1984

Honorary Canon
1978

Chapter Canon
1985

Parish Priest
St Helen’s, Barry, 1984 to 1989

Parish Priest
St Mary’s, Bridgend, April 1989 to October 1994

Bishop of Wrexham
November 1994 to present

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