Barry Morgan has been Bishop of Llandaff since 1999 and Archbishop of Wales since 2003, having previously served as Bishop of Bangor 1993-99. Born in Neath, South Wales, he read history at London, Theology at Cambridge and trained for the ministry at Wescott House, Cambridge. He has served on the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, and serves on the Primates Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion. He was a member of the Lambeth Commission which produced the Windsor Report 2004. He has published a number of articles and books, his latest being a study of the work of the welsh poet R. S. Thomas ‘Strangely Orthodox’. He is also currently Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales, a fellow of Cardiff, UWIC, Bangor, Lampeter and Swansea and President of the Welsh Centre for International Affairs and has chaired an inquiry on behalf of Shelter Cymru on homelessness in Wales. Since 2004, he has been Chair of Tomorrow’s Wales – Cymry Yfory.

Seize this day

Today the All Wales Convention produces its report on the appetite for constitutional change in Wales. Here, and the Archbishop of Wales makes the case for why Welsh civic society and Wales as a whole would benefit from the Assembly moving to full law-making powers as soon as possible