William Morgan (Bible translator)

William Morgan
Imagined portrait by T. Prytherch (1907)[1]
Born1545
Died10 September 1604
Occupation(s)First translator of whole Bible into Welsh
Bishop of Llandaff and St Asaph

William Morgan (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.

Title page of Morgan's translation of the Bible
The opening page of The Book of Genesis in Morgan's Bible
  1. ^ Morgan, Prys. "A Bible for Wales". National Library of Wales. Archived from the original on 30 March 2016.

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