Trevor Evans (priest)


Trevor Owen Evans was an eminent Anglican priest in the last decades of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st. Born in Tywyn on 10 July 1937 he was educated at Dolgellau Boys’ Grammar School and UCW, Aberystwyth and ordained after a period of study at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield in 1962. He was Curate in Barmouth until 1964 and Curate then Vicar in Llandudno until 1975. He then spent a further 14 years in charge at Llanidloes with Llangurig, during which time he was appointed Diocesan Advisor on Spirituality and in 1982 was made a Prebendary of Bangor Cathedral. He also served as Diocesan Director of Ordinands from 1989 to 1999 while incumbent at Trefdraeth and subsequently Llanfairpwllgwyngyll with Penmynydd before being appointed as Dean of Bangor Cathedral in 1998 by Barry Morgan. He retired in 2004 and continued to live in Bangor until his death on 30 June 2020, aged 82.