He was educated at Gowerton Boys' Grammar School and St David's College, Lampeter.
Morgan was ordained a deacon on 25 July 1964 (by John Thomas (Bishop of Swansea and Brecon) in Brecon Cathedral)[3] and a priest in 1965, beginning his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Llangyfelach and Morriston, Cockett and Coventry.
At a national level he was chairman of the General Synod’s Board of Social Responsibility’s Working Party on the Future of the Family, which produced a report called 'Something to Celebrate' in 1995.
[8] Morgan was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2005.
[9] In the year of his retirement, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, awarded him the Cross of St Augustine in recognition of his service to the Anglican Communion.