Church in Wales

Church in Wales Eglwys yng Nghymru
Church in Wales flag
General
Belief	Anglicanism
organization	Episcopal Church
distribution	Wales
Primate of Wales	Archbishop of Wales John Davies
membership	Anglican Community
founding
Establishment date	1920 ( secularized )
numbers
Members	45,759 (2016)
Others
Website	churchinwales.org.uk

The Church in Wales ( Welsh Eglwys yng Nghymru ; Church in Wales ) is the member church of the Anglican Communion for Wales . The Church in Wales is a member of the Porvoo Fellowship and has agreed full communion with these churches .

history

When an Anglican state church was created in the course of the Reformation as a result of the Supreme Act, this was also established in Wales, as Wales had belonged to the Kingdom of England since the English conquest in the 13th century . Until 1920, the Welsh dioceses were under the Primate of Canterbury .

In the 19th century, more and more Welsh, especially among the miners and industrial workers, turned away from the state church and towards local free, " non-conformist " parishes. They saw the Church of England as an instrument of English rule and the enforcement of the English language at the expense of Welsh. Welsh politicians, including David Lloyd George , therefore called for the Anglican Church in Wales to be separated from the Church of England. This was done through a law passed by the British Parliament in 1914 , the Welsh Church Act 1914 . As a result of the First World War, the law did not come into force until 1920. The Welsh Church Act made the Anglican Church in Wales independent and at the same time stripped of its status as an established state church ("disestablishment") - hence the current name Church in Wales instead of Church of Wales. As a result, she lost the right to collect her tithe and her property ("disendowment"). Due to its theological heritage and not least due to its tradition of demarcation from the non-conformist movements since the 19th century, the Church in Wales is still characterized by a tendency towards the High Church .

In 1997 women were first ordained as ministers in the Church in Wales . Since 2013 women can also be ordained as bishops . In January 2017, Joanna Penberthy became the first Anglican female bishop to take office in the Church in Wales.

Membership, Organization, and Management

The term “membership” is used in the Church in Wales in both a narrow and broad sense. In the narrower sense, those members who have formally registered and thus z. B. are entitled to vote in elections for church bodies. In a broader sense, all worshipers are considered members. In 2014, an average of 36,000 believers attended the services on Sundays. The best attendance at the church service was at Easter in 2014 with a good 52,000 believers.

The Church in Wales comprises around 900 parishes in six dioceses (as of 2020).

coat of arms	diocese	cathedral		Location of the dioceses in Wales	website
	Diocese of Bangor Bishop of Bangor	Cathedral of Saint Deiniol, Bangor			bangor.churchinwales.org.uk
	Diocese of Llandaff Bishop of Llandaff	Llandaff Cathedral , Llandaff (a borough of Cardiff )			llandaff.churchinwales.org.uk
	Diocese of Monmouth Bishop of Monmouth	Cathedral of St. Woolos, King & Confessor, Newport			monmouth.churchinwales.org.uk
	Diocese of St Asaph Bishop of St Asaph	St Asaph Cathedral , St Asaph			stasaph.churchinwales.org.uk
	Diocese of St David's Bishop of St David's	St David's Cathedral , St Davids			stdavids.churchinwales.org.uk
	Diocese of Swansea and Brecon Bishop of Swansea and Brecon	Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Brecon			swanseaandbrecon.churchinwales.org.uk

Archbishops of Wales

Primate as the primus inter pares of the bishops is the Archbishop of Wales. Unlike the Church of England, this office is not tied to a specific bishopric. John Davies , Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, has held the title of Archbishop of Wales since 2017 . With the other bishops he forms the college of bishops, the Bench of Bishops .

The bishops belong to the governing body together with 51 representatives from the rest of the clergy and 81 representatives from the lay faithful . H. to the Synod , as the highest church governing body.

list

• 1920–1934 Alfred George Edwards (Bishop of St Asaph)
• 1934–1944 Charles Alfred Howell Green (Bishop of Bangor)
• 1944–1949 David Lewis Prosser (Bishop of St David's)
• 1949–1957 John Morgan (Bishop of Llandaff)
• 1957–1967 Edwin Morris (Bishop of Monmouth)
• 1968–1971 William Glyn Hughes Simon (Bishop of Llandaff)
• 1971–1982 Gwilym Owen Williams (Bishop of Bangor)
• 1983–1986 Derrick Greenslade Childs (Bishop of Monmouth)
• 1987–1991 George Noakes (Bishop of St David's)
• 1991–1999 Alwyn Rice Jones (Bishop of St Asaph)
• 1999–2002 Rowan Williams (Bishop of Monmouth) (then Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England )
• 2003–2017 Barry Morgan (Bishop of Llandaff)
• since 2017 John Davies (Bishop of Swansea and Brecon)

literature

• Philip Michael Hett Bell: Disestablishment in Ireland and Wales . Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge / Church Historical Society, London 1969, ISBN 0-281-02336-0 .
• Henry William Clarke: A history of the Church of Wales . Swan Sunshine & Co., London 1896.
• Norman Doe: The law of the Church in Wales . University of Wales Press, Cardiff 2002, ISBN 0-7083-1748-0 .
• Henry T. Edwards: Wales and the Welsh Church . Rivingtons, London 1889.
• Rosemary CE Hayes et al. a. (Ed.): Clergy, church and society in England and Wales c. 1200-1800 . Borthwick Publications, Heslington 2013, ISBN 978-1-904497-58-5 .
• John Williams James: A Church history of Wales . AH Stockwell, Ilfracombe 1945.
• David Trevor William Price: A history of the Church in Wales in the twentieth century . Church in Wales Publications, Penarth 1990, ISBN 0-85326-026-5 .
• Keith Robbins: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales. The Christian church 1900–2000 (= Oxford History of the Christian Church ). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-826371-5 .
• David Walker (ed.): A history of the Church in Wales . Church in Wales Publications for the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, Penarth 1976, ISBN 0-85326-010-9 .
• Robert Williams: The attack on the church in Wales: Evidence and facts collected and sifted against disestablishment and disendowment . Mowbray, London and Oxford 1912.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Church in Wales will spend £ 10m to 'breathe new life' into its churches 05/20/2018 WalesOnline
2. ^ Henry T. Edwards: Wales and the Welsh Church . Rivingtons, London 1889; therein the chapter "Why are the Welsh people alienated from the Church?", pp. 288–336.
3. ^ Keith Robbins: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales. The Christian church 1900-2000 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, pp. 189-197.
4. ^ The Admission of Women to the Episcopate - A Statement by the Bench of Bishops , accessed January 14, 2016.
5. ↑ BBC News, September 12, 2013: Church in Wales backs women bishops .
6. ↑ BBC: Canon Joanna Penberthy elected Wales' first woman bishop, November 2, 2016
7. ↑ ^{a b c} The Church in Wales: Membership and Finances - 2014 , p. 3.
8. ↑ Structure , accessed July 9, 2020.
9. ^ Governing Body .

Web links

• Official Church in Wales website (in English and Welsh)