Father Philip Masson was born in Pontypridd in 1952 and ordained deacon in 1978. He was a curate at St Theodore’s, Port Talbot from 1978 to 1982 and then moved to be vicar of Pen-y-fai with Tondu, outside Bridgend. He became Rector of Porthcawl in 1992. Married to Maggie in 1982, he has five daughters.