Thomas Stafford Williams ONZ ChStJ (20 March 1930 – 22 December 2023) was a New Zealand cardinal in the Catholic Church and the fifth Archbishop of Wellington from 1979 to 2005.

[1] Returning to Wellington, Williams served as assistant pastor and as Director of Studies at the Catholic Enquiry Centre.

He left that post when he volunteered to serve as a missionary in Samoa (today the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia), where he was parish priest for five years.

[4] Williams became Archbishop of Wellington on 20 December 1979 – his 20th anniversary of priestly ordination[5] – following the death of Reginald Cardinal Delargey.

Williams was created Cardinal-Priest of the titular church of Jesus the Divine Teacher at Pineta Sacchetti by Pope John Paul II on 2 February 1983.