Timothy Rees

Who was Timothy Rees?

Timothy Rees MC was a Bishop of Llandaff.

Timothy Rees was a Cardiganshire man, educated at Lampeter and subsequently pursued a monastic vocation at the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield in Yorkshire. When in 1931 he became Bishop of Llandaff he was the first member of a religious community to be appointed to an Anglican see in Wales for over three centuries. He was a distinguished speaker both in English and Welsh and a respected hymnographer.

He was born to David Rees and his wife Catherine at Llain, Llanbadarn Trefeglwys, Cards. The National Library of Wales, and others, report his birth as 15 August 1874, though other sources claim 1869.