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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 ...
Today, the Church in Wales is fully independent of both the state and the Church of England. It is an independent member of the Anglican Communion, as are the Church of Ireland and the Scottish Episcopal Church. In the first years of the 21st century, the Church in Wales has begun to engage in numerous debates.
The Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It was made to provide for a grant to be made from the Treasury to enable the Welsh Church Commissioners to carry out their task and to set a date for the implementation of the disestablishment of the Church in Wales from the Church of England mandated by the Welsh Church Act 1914.
The Welsh Church Commissioners (whose full official title was "The Commissioners for Church Temporalities in Wales") [a] were set up by the Welsh Church Act 1914 to deal with the disendowment of the Church of England in Wales, as part of its disestablishment.
The Welsh Church Act 1914 provided for the separation of the four dioceses of the Church of England located in Wales (known collectively as the Church in Wales) from the rest of the Church, and for the simultaneous disestablishment of the Church. The Act came into operation in 1920. Since then there has been no established church in Wales.
The triumph of Methodism in Wales led by the 19th century to a situation where the vast majority of Protestants were not members of the Church of England, which in turn fuelled a long and bitter struggle for disestablishment, only resolved in the wake of the Welsh Church Act 1914 when in 1920 the Church of England was disestablished in Wales, becoming the Church in Wales.
In England and Wales in the late 19th century the new terms "free church" and "Free churchman" (or "Free church person") started to replace Nonconformist or Dissenter. [4] One influential Nonconformist minister was Matthew Henry, who beginning in 1710 published his multi-volume biblical commentary that is still used and available in the 21st ...
The Welsh Church (Burial Grounds) Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6.c. 27) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The act relates to burial grounds in Wales that were intended to be transferred from the Church of England to Welsh local authorities following the separation of the Church in Wales from the Church of England, its independence, and its simultaneous disestablishment.