Anthony Crockett

Crockett was born on 23 August 1945.^[1] He was educated at Pontypridd County Grammar School, an all-boys state grammar school in Pontypridd.^[2] He studied classics at King's College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1967.^[1] He remained at King's to study theology in preparation for ordination, completing a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) degree and the Associateship of King's College (AKC) qualification in 1970.^[1][3] He then underwent a year of training at St Michael's College, Llandaff, an Anglican theological college in Wales, leaving in 1971 to be ordained.^[3]

Crockett was ordained in the Church in Wales as a deacon in 1971 and as a priest in 1972.^[3] He was a curate at Aberdare and Whitchurch (Cardiff). From 1978 to 1986 he was Vicar of Llanafan y Trawsgoed then from 1986 Rector of Dowlais before serving eight years as the Secretary of the Board of Ministry of the Church in Wales. A fluent Welsh speaker,^[4] his final post before his ordination to the episcopate was as Archdeacon of Carmarthen (1999-2004).^[5]

In 2004, Crockett became the Bishop of Bangor.^[6]

Crockett was the first divorced person in the United Kingdom to be appointed as a bishop in a mainstream church, amidst some controversy.^[7][8] In 1985 he separated from his first wife, with whom he had three children. He married Caroline Ann Owen (born 1959) in 1999^[8] and also ordained her in 2006.^[9]