Fr Lee Taylor

Reverend Lee Taylor is the vicar of three churches in and around the picturesque town of Llangollen in North Wales, where he is known for a progressive and inclusive approach to ministry.

In 2021, Lee and his partner were the first same-sex couple to receive a civil partnership blessing in the Church in Wales. He serves on the Select Committee of the Governing Body of the Church in Wales preparing a Bill to permanently authorise a liturgy for blessing couples following a same-sex civil partnership or marriage.

Alongside traditional parish life, Lee has introduced innovative contemplative practices, including Soundbath Meditations at St Collen’s Church, bringing together a diverse community of spiritual seekers. He also leads workshops on Gregorian chant through his programme Harmonising the Soul, exploring the chant tradition as a pathway into meditation and spiritual awareness.

Lee is a member of the Churches’ Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies, an organisation that explores spiritual, psychic, and mystical experience within a Christian framework. His wider interests include near-death experiences (NDEs), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and the relationship between sound, consciousness, and spirituality.

He is currently pursuing a part-time research degree examining religious and mystical experience. His dissertation, Music as a Catalyst for Mystical Experience: A Study of Hemi-Sync-Assisted Meditation, investigates how sound technologies can support contemplative and transcendent states. Lee also works with Hemi-Sync audio technology to create guided spiritual meditations designed for people of all faiths and spiritual backgrounds.

In 2023 he participated in the Near-Death Experience Spectrum programme at the Monroe Institute, and in 2024 he presented on the subject at the Aging as Adventure conference at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Outside parish ministry, Lee has a long-standing interest in theatre and Victorian music hall. His forthcoming book, Divine Comedy: Over a Century of Comic Clergy on Stage and Screen, will be published in late 2026.

In 2023 he was also affectionately dubbed the “Squid Vicar” after competing in Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge.