Paul Davies (priest)
Richard Paul Davies is the current Archdeacon of Surrey and former Archdeacon of Bangor.
Davies was educated at the University of Wales, Lampeter, the University of Oxford and Ripon College, Cuddesdon. He was ordained in 1997 in St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, where he served his title as a minor canon before incumbencies at Solva in Pembrokeshire and Burry Port in Carmarthenshire. He was appointed on 23 September 2011 and collated and installed as Archdeacon of Bangor and Anglesey in Bangor Cathedral on 19 February 2012. At the time of his installation, Davies was the youngest archdeacon in Wales and England.
It was announced on 5 October 2017 that Davies was to be collated Archdeacon of Surrey, in the English Diocese of Guildford, on 10 December.
