The Church in Wales is an Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.
The post of Archbishop of Wales was created in 1920 when the Church in Wales was separated from the Church of England and disestablished. The four historic Welsh dioceses had previously formed part of the Province of Canterbury, and so came under its Archbishop. The new Church became the Welsh province of the Anglican Communion.
The Bishop of Bangor is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor. The see is based in the city of Bangor where the bishop's seat (cathedra) is at Cathedral Church of Saint Deiniol.
Bangor Cathedral is the cathedral church of Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. It is dedicated to its founder, Saint Deiniol.
Barry Cennydd Morgan KStJ is a Welsh academic from Neath, Wales who, from 2003 to Jan 2017, was Archbishop of Wales. He was both Primate and Metropolitan of the Church in Wales; Morgan was the Bishop of Bangor from 1992 to 1999, and was the Bishop of Llandaff from 1999 until his retirement in January 2017. He was the longest serving archbishop in the entire Anglican Communion.
Peter Alan Broadbent, known as Pete Broadbent, is an English Anglican bishop. He served as the Bishop of Willesden, an area bishop in the Church of England Diocese of London for twenty years, 2001–2021. During the vacancy in the diocesan see from 2017–2018, he served as Acting Bishop of London.
The Anglican Bishop of Plymouth is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the city of Plymouth in Devon; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 21 November 1922. The suffragan bishop has particular episcopal oversight of the archdeaconries of Plymouth and Totnes.
Phillip Anthony "Tony" Crockett was a Welsh Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Bangor from 2004 until his death from prostate cancer in 2008.
Francis James Saunders Davies was the Anglican Bishop of Bangor from 2000 until 2004.
Alan Gregory Clayton Smith is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2009, he has been the Bishop of St Albans. From 2001 to 2009, he served as the area Bishop of Shrewsbury.
Robert Ronald Atwell is a British Anglican bishop, writer, and former Benedictine monk. Since April 2014, he has been the Bishop of Exeter. From 2008 to 2014, he was Bishop of Stockport, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Chester.
Andrew Thomas Griffith John is the current Anglican Archbishop of Wales. He became the Bishop of Bangor in 2008 and was appointed archbishop in 2021.
James Alan George Housden was the fifth Anglican Bishop of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia, serving from 1947 to 1958. In 1958 he then became the Bishop of Newcastle in New South Wales until 1972.
Royston Clifford Wright was the Anglican Bishop of Monmouth from 1986 to 1991.
Daniel Davies was the Anglican Bishop of Bangor from 1925 until his death.
John James Absalom "Jack" Thomas was the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon from 1958 until 1976.
John David Edward Davies KStJ is a Welsh Anglican bishop and former solicitor. From 2008 he was the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon in the Church in Wales. On 6 September 2017, he was also elected Archbishop of Wales; he continued in his role as diocesan bishop. He retired from both offices with effect from 2 May 2021.
Richard Paul Davies is the current Archdeacon of Surrey and former Archdeacon of Bangor.
Richard Edward Pain is a retired Anglican bishop. From 2013 to 2019, he served as Bishop of Monmouth in the Church in Wales.
Meurig Llwyd Williams was the Archdeacon of Bangor from 2005 to 2011; and Archdeacon of France, 2016–2021.
