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.
Jeffrey Philip Hywel John is a Church of England priest, who served as the Dean of St Albans from 2004 until 2021. He made headlines in 2003 when he was the first person to have openly been in a same-sex relationship to be nominated as a Church of England bishop. Owing to the consequent controversy he stepped down. In the years since, he has reportedly been considered for at least seven diocesan bishoprics across England, Wales and the Isle of Man.
The Bishop of Llandaff is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff.
Gwilym Owen Williams was a prominent figure in the Church in Wales who served as Bishop of Bangor from 1957 to 1982 and Archbishop of Wales from 1971 to 1982.
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 to 2018, he served as Acting Bishop of London.
Alwyn Rice Jones was Bishop of St Asaph from 1981 to 1999 and also Archbishop of Wales, the Welsh province of the Anglican Communion, from 1991 to 1999. During Rice Jones' tenure, the Church of Wales reformed its rules in order to ordain women priests, and to allow divorcees to remarry in church.
John Stewart Went was the Anglican Bishop of Tewkesbury, the suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester, from 25 January 1996 until 2 March 2013.
Colin William Fletcher is a British retired Anglican bishop. He served as area Bishop of Dorchester in the Diocese of Oxford.
John Richard Allan Llewellin is a retired Anglican bishop in the Church of England.
Leslie Lloyd Rees was variously Honorary Chaplain to the Queen, Chaplain-General of Prisons and Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury.
John Dudley Galtrey Kirkham was a British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Sherborne in the last quarter of the 20th century and the first area bishop under the 1981–2009 area scheme.
John Richard Satterthwaite was an English bishop in the Church of England. He was Bishop of Gibraltar and at the same time Bishop of Fulham, during which appointments he was called "Bishop of Fulham and Gibraltar". In 1980, when the new Diocese in Europe was created from the union of those two jurisdictions, he became Bishop in Europe for the last third of the 20th century.
John Richard Gordon Eastaugh was an Anglican bishop in the last third of the 20th century.
John Freeman Perry is a retired Anglican bishop.
Christopher Heudebourck Morgan is a retired bishop in the Church of England, the area Bishop of Colchester from 2002 until his retirement in 2013.
Oliver Stratford Tomkins was an Anglican Bishop of Bristol in the third quarter of the 20th century.
Kenneth Lawrence "Ken" Barham is a retired Anglican bishop.
John Derrick Percy Lomas is an Anglican bishop in Wales, serving as the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon since 2021.
Mary Kathleen Rose Stallard is an Anglican bishop serving as the Bishop of Llandaff; she previously served as Archdeacon of Bangor and Assistant Bishop of Bangor.
Andrew Stuart Grimwood is an Anglican priest in the Church in Wales.
