William Morgan (Bible translator)

The Right Reverend
William Morgan
Imagined portrait by T. Prytherch (1907)
Born1545
Penmachno, Caernarfonshire, Wales
Died10 September 1604 (aged 58–59)
St Asaph, Flintshire, Wales
OccupationsFirst translator of whole Bible into Welsh
Bishop of Llandaff and St Asaph

William Morgan (c. 1545 – 10 September 1604) was a Welsh Bishop of Llandaff and of St Asaph, and the translator of the first version of the whole Bible into Welsh from Greek and Hebrew.

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