John Davies

Who is John Davies?

John Dudley Davies is a former Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury. During his tenure the post changed title from Suffragan Bishop to Area Bishop.

Davies was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. After Ordination in 1954 he began his career as curate in Halton, Leeds. Following that he served for many years in Southern Africa: his posts including that of Missionary Director for Empangeni and Chaplain at the University of Witwatersrand. While he was chaplain at the University, Davies played a major role in drafting the document A Message to the People of South Africa, a pamphlet published by the South African Council of Churches that challenged the Christians in South Africa to examine the policy of Apartheid.

Returning to England in 1970 to an administrative post at the Church of England Board of Education, he was then appointed Principal of Ascension College, Selly Oak and finally Diocesan Missioner of St Asaph. In 2012, while in his retirement he and his wife Shirley led the parish of St Dogfan, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant in mid-Wales while they were without a parish priest.

Davies’ books include:

⁕Beginning now - a Christian exploration of the first three chapters of Genesis - Fortress Press