The Bishop of St Asaph has to announced the appointment of the Reverend Nigel Howard Williams as Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Asaph.
Father Williams is currently Vicar of Colwyn Bay with Bryn y Maen. He was born in St Asaph and brought up in Llansannan.
His childhood passion for farming took him to Llysfasi Agricultural College and prior to ordination into a varied career in agriculture, culminating in being a depot manager for Wynnstay Farmers in Llanrwst.
Nigel trained for the priesthood at St Michael’s College, Llandaff and the University of Wales, Cardiff. He was ordained in St Asaph Cathedral in the mid 1990s and prior to his ministry in Colwyn Bay has served in the parishes of Denbigh & Nantglyn, and Llanrwst and Llanddoged. Between 2004 and 2009 he served as Area Dean of Rhos.
Nigel has been Archbishop’s Advisor on Rural Ministry and serves as a pastoral selector on the Provincial Selection Board and is a member of the Diocesan Advisory Committee on Church buildings.
He is married to Nia, who is Vicar of Glan Ogwen, Mynydd Llandegai and Pentir and they have two daughters, Catrin, who is about to complete her A level studies and Dwynwen, who will take her GCSE’s next year.
The Installation of the new Dean is scheduled to take place in the afternoon of Saturday, 17th September.
In expressing the congratulations of the diocese to Nigel Williams, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Right Reverend Dr Gregory Cameron says, ‘Nigel is, in my view, the right person to carry forward ministry in St Asaph Cathedral, and I am delighted that he will be assuming this role in the Cathedral and the life of the diocese in the autumn. He is a child of the diocese, and has shown great flair in his ministry in Colwyn Bay – flair which will be put to excellent use in the Cathedral.’
‘To serve the diocese as Dean is a great privilege’, says Nigel Williams, ‘I am looking forward to being a part of the community that makes the Cathedral a living place of prayer and worship.’
