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Phillip Anthony Crockett (23 August 1945 – 30 June 2008) was a Welsh Anglican Bishop of Bangor from 2004 until his death from prostate cancer in 2008.
Tony Crockett was educated at Pontypridd Grammar School and King's College London before beginning his ordained ministry. He was ordained in 1971 and was a curate at Aberdare and Whitchurch (Cardiff). From 1978 to 1986 he was Vicar of Llanafan y Trawsgoed then Rector of Dowlai before serving eight years as the Secretary of the Board of Ministry of the Church in Wales. A fluent Welsh speaker, his final post before his ordination to the episcopate was as Archdeacon of Carmarthen (1999-2004).
Crockett was the first divorced person in the United Kingdom to be appointed as a bishop in a mainstream church, amidst some controversy. In 1985 he separated from his first wife, with whom he had three children. He married Caroline Ann Owen (born 1959) in 1999 and also ordained her in 2006.