Diocese of St Asaph

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Coat of arms of the diocese of St Asaph

The diocese of St Asaph ( Latin Dioecesis Assavensis , English Diocese of S Asaph , Welsh Esgobaeth Llanelwy ) is a diocese of the Anglican Church in Wales with its seat in St Asaph . It was a Roman Catholic diocese until the English Reformation .

history

Cathedral of St Asaph

According to legend, St. Kentigern founded a monastery in Llanelwy in 560 . When he returned to Scotland in 573, he installed St. Asaph as his successor. After the Norman conquest of North Wales , the Normans tried to gain supremacy over the Welsh Church as well. In addition, Theobald von Bec , the Archbishop of Canterbury, appointed Gilbertus Bishop of St Asaph in 1142. His North Welsh diocese was subordinate to the Archdiocese of Canterbury as a suffragan . In the middle of the 13th century, the diocese of St Asaph comprised 69 churches and 19 chapels . The diocese was divided into eight deaneries . After his first campaign against Wales, the English King Edward I wanted to move the bishopric from St Asaph to the newly founded Rhuddlan in 1281 . In the second war between England and Wales that followed shortly afterwards, St Asaph's cathedral was destroyed by English soldiers in 1282 . Bishop Anian II excommunicated the English soldiers, whereupon he lost the favor of the English king and had to flee from St Asaph. Archbishop Pecham of Canterbury then decided to keep the bishopric and rebuild the cathedral.

The last Roman Catholic bishop , Thomas Goldwell , fled in 1559. Bishop Thomas Goldwell died in Rome in 1581 .

After the English Reformation, the diocese of St Asaph belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury of the Church of England until the Welsh Anglican Church became an independent Church in Wales in 1920 .

See also

literature

  • MJ Pearson: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300. Volume 9. London 2003, pp. 33-36 ( British History Online ).
  • B. Jones: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541. Volume 11. London 1965, pp. 37-39 ( British History Online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Diocese of St. Asaph: The Cathedral History. Retrieved August 14, 2014 .