CANON TREVOR Williams, rector of Holy Trinity and St Silas with Immanuel parish in north Belfast, has been elected as the new Church of Ireland Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe.
He replaces Bishop Michael Mayes, who retired last March.
Canon Williams was born in Dublin in 1948 and educated in St Andrew’s College there, at Trinity College and St John’s College Nottingham.
He was ordained deacon in 1974 and a priest the following year, first serving as a curate in Maindenhead, St Andrews and St Mary’s in the diocese of Oxford from 1974 to 1977. He was assistant chaplain at Queen’s University Belfast in 1978 before becoming religious broadcasting producer with the BBC in that city from 1981-1988.
From 1988 to 1993 he served as rector at St John’s in Newcastle, Co Down and went on from there to become leader of the Corrymeela Community, an ecumenical Christian group committed to promoting peace and reconciliation. In 2002 he was appointed a canon of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Since 2003 he has been serving as rector of Holy Trinity and St Silas with Immanuel in north Belfast.
Always actively interested in working for reconciliation in the North, he recently joined with four other Protestant clergymen from north Belfast in urging the Northern Ireland Executive to put more resources into addressing sectarianism.
In his spare time he sails and likes car mechanics.
