The Reverend Professor Noel Cox is a professor of law at Aberystwyth University, a priest of the Church in Wales, and a Barrister of the Inner Temple. He is a member of Credo Cymru, the Society of King Charles the Martyr, and the Mission Society of St Wilfrid and St Hilda. He is Non-Stipendiary Assistant Curate in St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr (since 2013 in the Group Benefice of Llanbadarn Fawr and Elerch and Penrhyncoch and Capel Bangor), in the Diocese of St Davids, in the Church in Wales.He is a Distinguished Academic Associate of the Centre for Law and Religion at Cardiff University, is a constitutional and canon lawyer, and has written extensively in the field of ecclesiastical law.