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The Church in Wales (Welsh: Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is an Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses. [3] The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed archiepiscopal see, but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops. The position is currently held by Andy John, Bishop of Bangor, since 2021. [4]
The first Archbishop of Wales was enthroned in 1920. [1] The Welsh Church Act 1914 caused the Church of England to be disestablished in Wales and Monmouthshire in 1920, and allowed the establishment of the Church in Wales and enthronement of the first Archbishop of Wales in the same year.
It applies only in England and Wales, and does not cover the Church of England (that country's established church) which is exempt from the act's requirements. [2] Nor does it affect the Church in Wales, [3] which remains part of the Anglican Communion although it is no longer the Established Church in Wales. [4]
The Church of England was the established church until 1920 when the disestablished Church in Wales, was set up as a self-governing, though still Anglican, church. Most adherents to organised religion in Wales follow one of the Christian denominations such as the Presbyterian Church of Wales , Baptist and Methodist churches, the Church in Wales ...
The Welsh Church Act 1914 [1] is an Act of Parliament under which the Church of England was separated and disestablished in Wales and Monmouthshire, leading to the creation of the Church in Wales. The Act had long been demanded by the Nonconformist community in Wales , which composed the majority of the population and which resented paying ...
The Archdeacon of Bangor is the priest in charge of the archdeaconry of Bangor, an administrative division of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor. In 1844, the Archdeaconry of Bangor was combined with the Archdeaconry of Anglesey to form the Archdeaconry of Bangor and Anglesey. The archdeaconry comprises the seven deaneries of Archlechwedd ...
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The church is dedicated to St Ceidio, a 6th-century British saint who established a number of churches in Wales. [3] Geraint Jones, writing a guide to Anglesey churches in 2006, said that the site of the church dates from the 7th century, [5] and the 19th-century antiquarian Angharad Llwyd wrote in her history of Anglesey that a church was thought to have been at this location since 630.