William Morgan 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.
Imagined portrait by T. Prytherch (1907)
Title page of Morgan's translation of the Bible
The opening page of The Book of Genesis in Morgan's Bible
Translators' Memorial, St Asaph
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William Morgan (Bible translator)
…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. Morgan was born in 1545 at Tŷ Mawr Wybrnant, in the parish of Penmachno, near Betws-y-Coed, north Wales (there is some doubt…
Welsh Bible of 1620, in Llanwnda church, rescued from the hands of French invaders in 1797
Trilingual (Spanish, Welsh and English) sign in Gaiman, Chubut Province, Argentina
Bilingual road markings near Cardiff Airport