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.
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.
Alfred George Edwards, known as A. G. Edwards, was elected the first archbishop of the disestablished Church in Wales.
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.
Frederick Edward Ridgeway was an Anglican bishop from 1901 until his death 20 years later.
John Morgan was a Welsh Anglican bishop. He served as Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, as Bishop of Llandaff, and then also as Archbishop of Wales.
Gregory Kenneth Cameron is a Welsh Anglican bishop. He is Bishop of the Diocese of St Asaph in Wales, having been elected on 5 January 2009 and confirmed as bishop on 16 March 2009.
David Brownfield Porter was the suffragan Bishop of Aston from 1962 to 1972.
Robert Leighton Hodson was the second Bishop of Shrewsbury in the modern era.
Andrew John "Andy" Radford 26 January 1944 – 21 May 2006) was an Anglican Evangelical bishop and religious broadcaster. He served the Church of England as Bishop of Taunton from 1998 until his death eight years later.
Arthur Groom Parham was an English Anglican bishop who was bishop of Reading from 1942 until 1954.
Alfred Earle was the Bishop of Marlborough from 1888 to his death.
Colin Clement Walter James was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England, successively suffragan Bishop of Basingstoke, then the Bishop of Winchester.
Arthur Thomas Lloyd was an Anglican bishop. He served as Bishop of Thetford and as Bishop of Newcastle (1903–1907).
Ernest Morell Blackie was a British Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
Arthur Ivan Greaves was an Anglican bishop in the mid 20th century.
Henry Aylmer Skelton was a bishop in the mid part of the twentieth century.
Algernon Augustus Markham was an Anglican bishop, the fifth Bishop of Grantham.
Alfred Carey Wollaston Rose was the sixth Bishop of Dover, England, in the modern era, from 1935 to 1956.
Nigel Howard Williams is the current dean of St Asaph.
