John James Absalom Thomas (17 May 1908 – 27 February 1995[1]) was the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon from 1958[2] until 1976.
[3] Thomas was educated at the University of Aberystwyth and Keble College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1932.
[4] He held curacies at Llancaiach and Sketty after which he was the Bishop's Messenger and Examining Chaplain for the Swansea diocese.
He was then Warden of Church Hostel, Bangor, and a lecturer at the University College of North Wales until 1944.
[5] He made his son, David, (who served as Provincial Assistant Bishop in the Church in Wales from 1996 to 2008) a deacon on 21 May 1967 at St Asaph Cathedral;[6] Jack retired in 1976.